11-letter words containing s, i
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
- 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.
- blind-sided — Sports. to tackle, hit, or attack (an opponent) from the blind side: The quarterback was blindsided and had the ball knocked out of his hand.
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- 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.
- blow a kiss — to kiss one's hand, then blow across it as if to carry the kiss through the air to another person
- blue devils — a fit of depression or melancholy
- 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 schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- blue shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
- blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
- blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- 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.
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
- body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
- body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
- boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- 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.
- bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
- bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
- bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
- bonus issue — an issue of shares made by a company without charge and distributed pro rata among existing shareholders
- bonus point — an additional point in a game, a sporting competition, or any similar scheme in which points can be awarded
- bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- bookselling — the activity of selling books
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- bored stiff — very bored
- bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
- bottom fish — any fish that feeds or lives near the bottom of a body of water, as a flounder or catfish
- bottom-fish — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
- bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
- bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
- brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal