11-letter words containing r, e, l, i
- bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
- bible paper — a thin tough opaque paper used for Bibles, prayer books, and reference books
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- bibliolater — someone who reveres the Bible
- big-leaguer — Sports. a player in a major league.
- bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
- bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
- bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
- bill broker — a person whose business is the purchase and sale of bills of exchange
- billionaire — A billionaire is an extremely rich person who has money or property worth at least a thousand million pounds or dollars.
- billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
- bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
- binary file — (file format) Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
- bioelectric — of or having to do with electrical energy in living tissues
- biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- bioregional — relating to a bioregion
- biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
- bitter pill — a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow): Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.
- blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- bladderlike — resembling a bladder
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
- blind tiger — speak-easy
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
- blue marlin — a large marlin, Makaira nigricans, occurring worldwide in warm and temperate seas, highly prized in sportfishing and as a food fish.
- 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 spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
- 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
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
- boiler room — any room in a building (often in the basement) that contains a boiler for central heating, etc
- 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.
- boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- border line — boundary line; frontier.
- boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system