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11-letter words containing n, e, o, l

  • blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
  • bobbin lace — lace made with bobbins rather than with needle and thread (needlepoint lace); pillow lace
  • 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.
  • bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
  • 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)
  • bookselling — the activity of selling books
  • boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
  • 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.
  • bootlegging — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
  • border line — boundary line; frontier.
  • 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 fern — a fern, Cystopteris fragilis, of rocky, wooded areas throughout North America, having grayish-green fronds and brittle stalks.
  • bottom line — The bottom line in a decision or situation is the most important factor that you have to consider.
  • boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • bulbousness — the quality of being bulbous
  • bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
  • bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
  • 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
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • 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.
  • cablevision — cable television.
  • calefaction — the act of heating
  • californite — vesuvianite jade.
  • callousness — made hard; hardened.
  • 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.
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • cancelation — an act of canceling.
  • cancelmoose — (messaging)   A semi-mythical being that cancels Usenet articles posted by others. (In general, an article can only be cancelled by its original author.) The Cancelmoose's usual target is spam or extremely excessive cross-posting. Some believe that the Cancelmoose exists only in the same mythic sense that B1FF, the NSA line eater and Shub Internet exist; others consider Cancelmoose's historicity to be closer to that of Kibo. The latter group assume that the real Cancelmoose is not one person (or moose), but instead is a cabal of NNTP wonks. However, the Cancelmoose is probably real, seeing as how it has its own website.
  • cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
  • candle-foot — foot-candle
  • 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
  • cannel coal — a dull coal having a high volatile content and burning with a smoky luminous flame
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