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11-letter words containing n, u, l

  • baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
  • banana plug — a small single-conductor electrical plug having a curved metal spring along its shank forming a clip to hold it in its socket
  • banana slug — a large, bright yellow, slimy, shell-less mollusk, Ariolimax columbianus, of the northwestern forests of North America: the second largest slug in the world.
  • banefulness — The state or quality of being baneful.
  • bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
  • barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
  • bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
  • be laughing — to be in a favourable situation
  • bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
  • beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
  • belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
  • bellfounder — a foundry worker who casts bells
  • bellybutton — the navel
  • belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
  • belowground — underground
  • bend double — When you bend double, you bend the top half of your body downwards a long way.
  • bent double — If someone is bent double, the top part of their body is leaning forward towards their legs, usually because they are in great pain or because they are laughing a lot. In American English, you can also say that someone is bent over double.
  • biliousness — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • binucleated — having two nuclei
  • black angus — Aberdeen Angus
  • black cumin — a Eurasian herb, Nigella sativa, having pungent aromatic seeds used as a spice, but unrelated to cumin.
  • blacktongue — canine pellagra.
  • blind trust — A blind trust is a financial arrangement in which someone's investments are managed without the person knowing where the money is invested. Blind trusts are used especially by people such as members of parliament, so that they cannot be accused of using their position to make money unfairly.
  • 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.
  • bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • 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 mantle — one of the four pursuivants of the British College of Arms
  • blue marlin — a large marlin, Makaira nigricans, occurring worldwide in warm and temperate seas, highly prized in sportfishing and as a food fish.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
  • blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
  • blue ribbon — A blue ribbon is the same as a blue riband.
  • blue runner — a carangid fish of American Atlantic waters, Caranx crysos
  • blue screen — a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence
  • blue-jeaned — wearing blue jeans.
  • blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
  • blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
  • blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  • blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
  • boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
  • boston bull — Boston terrier
  • boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
  • branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
  • brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
  • brown flour — wheat flour that uses approximately 85% of the whole grain
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
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