11-letter words containing i, n, e, l
- bootlegging — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- border line — boundary line; frontier.
- bottom line — The bottom line in a decision or situation is the most important factor that you have to consider.
- boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
- branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
- bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- bristliness — the quality of being bristly
- brittleness — the quality of being brittle
- broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
- broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
- broken line — a discontinuous line or series of line segments, as a series of dashes, or a figure made up of line segments meeting at oblique angles.
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- buffet line — A buffet line is a selection of food that is displayed on a long table. Guests usually serve themselves.
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
- by-election — A by-election is an election that is held to choose a new member of parliament when a member has resigned or died.
- cablevision — cable television.
- caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
- cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
- calc-sinter — travertine
- calcineurin — (enzyme) A protein phosphatase that stimulates the growth and differentiation of T cells.
- calefacient — causing warmth
- calefaction — the act of heating
- calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendarist — a person who calendarizes
- calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
- calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- californite — vesuvianite jade.
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- callanetics — a system of exercise involving frequent repetition of small muscular movements and squeezes, designed to improve muscle tone
- calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
- calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
- camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
- camino real — a main road; highway.
- cancelation — an act of canceling.
- candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
- candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
- cannibalise — to subject to cannibalism.
- cannibalize — If you cannibalize something, you take it to pieces and use it to make something else.
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
- captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
- car licence — an official document or certificate authorizing a person to drive an automobile
- carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC