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11-letter words containing k, l, e

  • bell beaker — a bell-shaped beaker, especially one associated with the Beaker folk.
  • below decks — If someone or something is below decks, they are inside a ship in the part of it that is underneath the deck.
  • berkeley fp — (language)   A version of Backus's FP distributed with 4.2BSD Unix.
  • berkeleyism — any philosophical system or doctrine derived from the views of Bishop Berkeley.
  • berzerkeley — (humour)   /b*r-zer'klee/ (From "berserk", via the name of a now-deceased record label) A humorous distortion of "Berkeley" used especially to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix hackers. See software bloat, Missed'em-five, Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s.
  • bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • biblioklept — a person who steals books.
  • bikini line — A woman's bikini line is the edges of the area where her pubic hair grows.
  • bill broker — a person whose business is the purchase and sale of bills of exchange
  • bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
  • black alder — a deciduous shrub (Ilex verticillata) of the holly family, native to E North America, with glossy leaves that turn black in the fall and bright-red berries
  • black bread — a kind of very dark coarse rye bread
  • black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
  • black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
  • black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
  • black maple — a tree, Acer saccharum nigrum, of eastern and central North America, having furrowed, blackish bark and yellow-green flowers.
  • black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
  • black metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extremely nihilistic and satanic lyrics, a repetitive drum beat rapidly alternating betweeen the snare and bass drum (a blast beat), and the ghoulish make-up worn by performers (corpse paint)
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • black olive — a tropical American tree, Bucida buceras, having leathery leaves and greenish-yellow flowers.
  • black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
  • black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
  • black racer — blacksnake (def 1).
  • black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
  • black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
  • black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
  • blackballed — to vote against (a candidate, applicant, etc.).
  • blackbeetle — oriental cockroach.
  • blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
  • blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
  • blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
  • blacktongue — canine pellagra.
  • bladderlike — resembling a bladder
  • blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
  • blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
  • blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
  • blank slate — tabula rasa.
  • blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
  • blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
  • blanketlike — resembling a blanket
  • blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
  • bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
  • blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
  • block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
  • block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
  • block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
  • blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blood fluke — any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea
  • blood-caked — caked with blood
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