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11-letter words containing l, o, b, t

  • 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 bill — a legislative bill that requires the charging of a refundable deposit on certain beverage bottles and cans, to encourage the return of these containers for recycling while at the same time reducing littering.
  • bottle club — a so-called club in which patrons, nominally members, are served liquor from bottles purportedly belonging to them, without regard to liquor control laws
  • bottle fern — a fern, Cystopteris fragilis, of rocky, wooded areas throughout North America, having grayish-green fronds and brittle stalks.
  • bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
  • bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
  • bottle tree — any of several Australian sterculiaceous trees of the genus Sterculia (or Brachychiton) that have a bottle-shaped swollen trunk
  • bottle-feed — If you bottle-feed a baby, you give it milk or a liquid like milk in a bottle rather than the baby sucking milk from its mother's breasts.
  • bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
  • 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
  • bottom bolt — a bolt at the bottom of a door or the like, sliding into a socket in the floor or sill and equipped with a device for keeping it raised when the door is not fastened.
  • bottom lady — a pimp's most reliable prostitute.
  • bottom land — bottom (def 4).
  • bottom line — The bottom line in a decision or situation is the most important factor that you have to consider.
  • bottom plug — A bottom plug is a bridge or cement seal placed near the bottom of the well in order to shut it off.
  • bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
  • boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
  • bracteolate — having bractlets
  • brattleboro — a town in SE Vermont.
  • breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
  • breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
  • bright wool — the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
  • british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • bubble sort — A sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries "bubble upward" in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value. Because it is not very good relative to other methods and is the one typically stumbled on by naive and untutored programmers, hackers consider it the canonical example of a naive algorithm. The canonical example of a really *bad* algorithm is bogo-sort. A bubble sort might be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue only from brain damage or willful perversity.
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • build up to — If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually.
  • bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
  • bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
  • bullet hole — hole made by a bullet
  • bullet wood — the wood of a bully tree.
  • bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bumble-foot — an inflammatory condition of the feet of birds, usually caused by an infection
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • button lift — a kind of ski lift for one person consisting of a moving cable to which is attached a pole with a circular plate at the bottom, which a skier places between his or her legs to be carried up the hill
  • button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • buttonmould — the small core of plastic, wood, or metal that is the base for buttons covered with fabric, leather, etc
  • butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
  • by-election — A by-election is an election that is held to choose a new member of parliament when a member has resigned or died.
  • cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
  • calibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
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