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11-letter words containing t, r, e, b, l

  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
  • boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
  • 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.
  • breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
  • breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
  • 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.
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • bristlebird — any of various Australian warblers of the genus Dasyornis.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • bristlelike — resembling a bristle
  • 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
  • bristliness — the quality of being bristly
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • brittleness — the quality of being brittle
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • bubble sort — A sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries "bubble upward" in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value. Because it is not very good relative to other methods and is the one typically stumbled on by naive and untutored programmers, hackers consider it the canonical example of a naive algorithm. The canonical example of a really *bad* algorithm is bogo-sort. A bubble sort might be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue only from brain damage or willful perversity.
  • 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.
  • bullet tree — any of various tropical American trees, as Manilkara bidentata, of the sapodilla family, that yield the gum balata.
  • bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bullfighter — A bullfighter is the person who tries to injure or kill the bull in a bullfight.
  • bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • bullterrier — a breed of dog
  • 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
  • bus shelter — A bus shelter is a bus stop that has a roof and at least one open side.
  • butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
  • butterfield — William. 1814–1900, British architect of the Gothic Revival; his buildings include Keble College, Oxford (1870) and All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1849–59)
  • butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness
  • butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
  • carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
  • carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
  • carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
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