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11-letter words containing l, b, s

  • blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
  • bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
  • block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
  • blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
  • blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
  • blood sport — Blood sports are sports such as hunting in which animals are killed.
  • blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • 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
  • blue cheese — cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue
  • blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
  • blue devils — a fit of depression or melancholy
  • blue ensign — an ensign having the Union Jack on a blue background at the upper corner of the vertical edge alongside the hoist: flown by Royal Navy auxiliary vessels, and, with some extra distinguishing mark or insignia, by certain yacht clubs
  • blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
  • blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
  • blue screen — a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence
  • blue shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
  • blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
  • blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
  • blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • blueblossom — a shrub, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, of the buckthorn family, abundant in the western U.S., having finely toothed oblong leaves and lilaclike clusters of blue flowers.
  • blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  • blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
  • bobsledding — a sled having two pairs of runners, a brake, and a steering wheel or other mechanism that enables the front rider to direct the sled down a steeply banked run or chute.
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
  • body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
  • boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
  • bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
  • book titles — (publication)   There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
  • bookselling — the activity of selling books
  • boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
  • boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
  • 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
  • boston bull — Boston terrier
  • bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
  • boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
  • boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
  • bragg's law — the principle that when a beam of X-rays of wavelength λ enters a crystal, the maximum intensity of the reflected ray occurs when sin θ = nλ/2d, where θ is the complement of the angle of incidence, n is a whole number, and d is the distance between layers of atoms
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