11-letter words containing l, o, n, r
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- blue ribbon — A blue ribbon is the same as a blue riband.
- blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
- bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
- bolingbrook — a city in NE Illinois.
- boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
- border line — boundary line; frontier.
- boring clam — piddock
- boring mill — a large vertical lathe having a rotating table on which work is secured. Tools are held on a fixed post and the work is rotated around it
- bottle fern — a fern, Cystopteris fragilis, of rocky, wooded areas throughout North America, having grayish-green fronds and brittle stalks.
- boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
- brain coral — a stony coral of the genus Meandrina, in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain
- breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
- 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.
- bronchocele — dilatation of a bronchus.
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
- brown algae — any algae of the phylum Phaeophyta, such as the wracks and kelps, which contain a brown pigment in addition to chlorophyll
- brown flour — wheat flour that uses approximately 85% of the whole grain
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
- calcinatory — A vessel used in calcination.
- calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
- calibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- californian — of or relating to California or its inhabitants
- californite — vesuvianite jade.
- californium — a metallic transuranic element artificially produced from curium. Symbol: Cf; atomic no: 98; half-life of most stable isotope, 251Cf: 800 years (approx.)
- call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
- calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camino real — a main road; highway.
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carcinology — the study of crustaceans
- cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
- cargo liner — a cargo ship that sails regularly between designated ports according to a published schedule.
- cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
- carillonist — a carillonneur
- carloadings — the number of railroad carloads shipped in or out within a given period