11-letter words containing al
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- buffet meal — meal at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- 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
- bush ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
- buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- cabbalistic — cabala.
- cachectical — cachetic
- cadastrally — from a cadastral point of view
- cadwallader — a male given name.
- caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
- cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
- cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
- calabazilla — a prostrate vine, Cucurbita foetidissima, of the gourd family, native to southwestern North America, having yellow flowers, round, inedible green and yellow fruit, and an unpleasant odor.
- calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calc-sinter — travertine
- calcariform — shaped like a calcar
- calceolaria — any tropical American scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Calceolaria: cultivated for its speckled slipper-shaped flowers
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- calcimining — Present participle of calcimine.
- calcination — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
- calcinatory — A vessel used in calcination.
- calcineurin — (enzyme) A protein phosphatase that stimulates the growth and differentiation of T cells.
- calculating — If you describe someone as calculating, you disapprove of the fact that they deliberately plan to get what they want, often by hurting or harming other people.
- calculation — A calculation is something that you think about and work out mathematically. Calculation is the process of working something out mathematically.
- calculative — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- calculators — Plural form of calculator.
- calculatory — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- calefacient — causing warmth
- calefaction — the act of heating
- calefactive — producing heat
- calefactory — giving warmth
- calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendarist — a person who calendarizes
- calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
- calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
- calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
- calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
- calibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- calico bass — crappie
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- calico clam — any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Macrocallista, especially M. nimbosa, having a smooth, thick, rounded shell marked with violet-brown or lilac spots or streaks.
- calico crab — a brightly speckled swimming crab, Ovalipes ocellatus, of sandy beaches along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.