11-letter words containing l, a, t, e, r
- bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
- brace table — a table giving the lengths of the hypotenuses of right isosceles triangles of varying sizes: used especially for calculating the lengths of diagonal braces.
- bracteolate — having bractlets
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- brattleboro — a town in SE Vermont.
- bread plate — A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal.
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
- breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
- breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
- bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
- bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
- brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- cafe filtre — a strong black filtered coffee
- calc-sinter — travertine
- calefactory — giving warmth
- calendarist — a person who calendarizes
- californite — vesuvianite jade.
- call center — A call center is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call centre — A call centre is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
- call market — the market for lending call money.
- callicrates — 5th century bc, Greek architect: with Ictinus, designed the Parthenon
- calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
- cardinalate — the rank, office, or term of office of a cardinal
- carefullest — Superlative form of careful.
- carpet plot — the graphed values of a function of more than one variable, read from an ordinate at points located by the intersection of curves of constant values of each of the variables
- carpet tile — a tile made of carpeting material that is used for flooring.
- cartelizing — Present participle of cartelize.
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- cartularies — Plural form of cartulary.
- cartwheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel.
- cartwheeler — a person who performs cartwheels