11-letter words containing l, o, b, t
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
- black volta — a river in W Africa, rising in SW Burkina Faso and flowing northeast, then south into Lake Volta: forms part of the border of Ghana with Burkina-Faso and with Côte d'Ivoire. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)
- black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastocoele — the segmentation cavity of a developing ovum or of the blastula
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- block front — Furniture. a front of a desk, chest of drawers, etc., of the third quarter of the 18th century, having three vertical divisions of equal width, a sunken one between raised ones, all divided by flat areas to which they are connected by curves, often with a shell motif forming a rounded termination to each section.
- block grant — (in Britain) an annual grant made by the government to a local authority to help to pay for the public services it provides, such as health, education, and housing
- block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
- block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blood count — Your blood count is the number of red and white cells in your blood. A blood count can also refer to a medical examination which determines the number of red and white cells in your blood.
- blood guilt — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
- blood sport — Blood sports are sports such as hunting in which animals are killed.
- bloodguilty — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
- bloodletter — someone or something which lets blood
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- bloomington — a city in central Indiana: seat of the University of Indiana (1820). Pop: 70 642 (2003 est)
- boat people — Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- body lotion — skin lotion for use on the body
- 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.
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
- bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
- bolt-action — (of a rifle) equipped with a manually operated sliding bolt.
- bombilation — a humming or buzzing sound, for example that of a bee
- bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- bontempelli — Massimo. 1878–1960, Italian dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic. His works include the play Nostra Dea (1925) and the novel The Faithful Lover (1953)
- 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.
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootlegging — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- boston bull — Boston terrier
- botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
- botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
- bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.