11-letter words containing l, a, s, o
- black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
- black goods — electronic goods which are housed in black or dark casings, such as televisions, CD players, etc
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastocoele — the segmentation cavity of a developing ovum or of the blastula
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- blow a kiss — to kiss one's hand, then blow across it as if to carry the kiss through the air to another person
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- break loose — to free oneself by force
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- broad glass — cylinder glass.
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- cablevision — cable television.
- cacomistles — Plural form of cacomistle.
- calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- calculators — Plural form of calculator.
- calico bass — crappie
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- callousness — made hard; hardened.
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- cameo glass — an ornamental glass in which two layers, often blue and opaque white, have been cased, and on which the design has been treated in the manner of a cameo.
- camouflages — Plural form of camouflage.
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- cancelmoose — (messaging) A semi-mythical being that cancels Usenet articles posted by others. (In general, an article can only be cancelled by its original author.) The Cancelmoose's usual target is spam or extremely excessive cross-posting. Some believe that the Cancelmoose exists only in the same mythic sense that B1FF, the NSA line eater and Shub Internet exist; others consider Cancelmoose's historicity to be closer to that of Kibo. The latter group assume that the real Cancelmoose is not one person (or moose), but instead is a cabal of NNTP wonks. However, the Cancelmoose is probably real, seeing as how it has its own website.
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.