11-letter words containing t, a, b, l, e
- blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
- blanketlike — resembling a blanket
- blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
- blastematic — blastemal
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastocoele — the segmentation cavity of a developing ovum or of the blastula
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- blue mantle — one of the four pursuivants of the British College of Arms
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- boat people — Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
- bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
- 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 rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
- bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
- bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
- brace table — a table giving the lengths of the hypotenuses of right isosceles triangles of varying sizes: used especially for calculating the lengths of diagonal braces.
- bracteolate — having bractlets
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- brattleboro — a town in SE Vermont.
- bread plate — A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal.
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
- breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
- breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
- bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
- bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
- brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
- bubble bath — Bubble bath is a liquid that smells nice and makes a lot of bubbles when you add it to your bath water.
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- buffet meal — meal at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch