11-letter words containing l, a, t, e
- 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.
- bubble bath — Bubble bath is a liquid that smells nice and makes a lot of bubbles when you add it to your bath water.
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- buffet meal — meal at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- 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
- cachectical — cachetic
- cacomistles — Plural form of cacomistle.
- cadet cloth — a heavy woolen cloth of double-cloth construction and bluish-gray color, used especially for uniforms at military schools.
- 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
- caffe latte — latte
- calc-sinter — travertine
- calculative — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- calefacient — causing warmth
- calefaction — the act of heating
- calefactive — producing heat
- calefactory — giving warmth
- calendarist — a person who calendarizes
- calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
- californite — vesuvianite jade.
- calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
- 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.
- callanetics — a system of exercise involving frequent repetition of small muscular movements and squeezes, designed to improve muscle tone
- 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
- calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
- calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
- 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
- campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
- campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- cancelation — an act of canceling.
- cancellated — Anatomy. of spongy or porous structure, as bone.