11-letter words containing u, l, e
- 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.
- betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
- bicephalous — having two heads
- big-leaguer — Sports. a player in a major league.
- biliousness — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
- billet-doux — a love letter
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- biomolecule — a molecule occurring naturally in living organisms
- biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- bleu cheese — blue cheese
- bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
- block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blood fluke — any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea
- blood purge — the mass execution, especially by a government, of persons considered guilty of treason or sedition.
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- blubberhead — a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
- bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- blue cheese — cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue
- blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
- blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
- 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 grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
- blue heeler — a cattle dog that controls cattle by biting their heels
- blue helmet — a member of a United Nations military force, usually deployed on peacekeeping missions, and recognizable by a helmet or beret of a distinctive light blue colour
- 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 murder — If you say that someone screams blue murder or screams bloody murder, you are emphasizing that they are making a lot of noise or fuss about something that they do not like.
- blue myrtle — blueblossom.
- 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 schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- 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 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 spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves