11-letter words containing l, i, b, e, s
- bimetallist — the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard.
- bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blastematic — blastemal
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
- blind-sided — Sports. to tackle, hit, or attack (an opponent) from the blind side: The quarterback was blindsided and had the ball knocked out of his hand.
- 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.
- 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 island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- 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-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
- 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.
- 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
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
- brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
- bristlebird — any of various Australian warblers of the genus Dasyornis.
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- bristlelike — resembling a bristle
- 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
- bristliness — the quality of being bristly
- brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
- brittleness — the quality of being brittle
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
- bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
- bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
- bump uglies — to have sexual intercourse
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- bustle pipe — an annular pipe distributing hot air to the tuyères.
- busy lizzie — a balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens balsamina, that has pink, red, or white flowers and is often grown as a pot plant