11-letter words containing l, e, k
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
- boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
- bok globule — a dense spherical cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space that absorbs light from stars.
- bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
- 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
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bottle bank — A bottle bank is a large container into which people can put empty bottles so that the glass can be used again.
- bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
- bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
- brake block — the part of the brake in a train or on a bicycle that is applied to the wheel to slow the vehicle down or stop it
- brake cable — a cable that connects a brake handle, pedal, or lever to a vehicle's braking mechanism
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
- brake lever — (on a bicycle) a lever on the handlebar that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
- 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
- brake pedal — (in a vehicle) a pedal that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
- brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
- break a leg — to performer: good luck
- break loose — to free oneself by force
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
- bristlelike — resembling a bristle
- broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
- broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
- broken line — a discontinuous line or series of line segments, as a series of dashes, or a figure made up of line segments meeting at oblique angles.
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- brotherlike — like a brother
- bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- 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.
- bull-necked — having a short thick neck
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
- cache block — cache line
- cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
- cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
- call market — the market for lending call money.
- candlemaker — Someone who makes candles; candler.
- candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- castle peak — highest peak in the Elk Mountain range, in W central Colorado. 14,265 feet (4352 meters).
- castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
- cattle tick — a dark brown tick, Boophilus annulatus, that infests cattle and is a vector for parasitic diseases of cattle, as babesiosis.