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11-letter words containing ble

  • body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
  • 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.
  • brake cable — a cable that connects a brake handle, pedal, or lever to a vehicle's braking mechanism
  • bubble bath — Bubble bath is a liquid that smells nice and makes a lot of bubbles when you add it to your bath water.
  • bubble bowl — a spherical, usually clear glass vessel with a wide circular top opening, used as a vase, especially for displaying a single floating blossom.
  • bubble card — blister pack.
  • bubble over — to overflow, as boiling liquid
  • 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.
  • bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
  • bumble-foot — an inflammatory condition of the feet of birds, usually caused by an infection
  • bumbleberry — a mixture of berries used in pie fillings and in preserves
  • bumblepuppy — a game of whist played carelessly or contrary to rules and conventions.
  • cable modem — (communications, hardware)   A type of modem that allows people to access the Internet via their cable television service. A cable modem can transfer data at 500 kbps or higher, compared with 28.8 kbps for common telephone line modems, but the actual transfer rates may be lower depending on the number of other simultaneous users on the same cable. Industry pundits often point out that the cable system still does not have the bandwidth or service level in many areas to make this feasible. For example, it has to be capable of two-way communication. See also: DOCSIS.
  • cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
  • cablevision — cable television.
  • cancellable — able to be cancelled
  • capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
  • certifiable — If you describe someone as certifiable, you think that their behaviour is extremely unreasonable or foolish.
  • chair table — an article of furniture, produced especially in colonial America, that can serve as either a table or a chair, having, as a chair, a large, usually circular, hinged back that can be pulled down and rested on the arms to form a tabletop.
  • chantefable — (in medieval French literature) a prose narrative interspersed with verse.
  • cherishable — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
  • clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
  • cobblestone — Cobblestones are stones with a rounded upper surface which used to be used for making streets.
  • cognoscible — able to be known or recognized
  • collapsable — capable of collapsing or of being collapsed, as for carrying or storing.
  • collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
  • collectable — A collectable object is one which is valued very highly by collectors because it is rare or beautiful.
  • collectible — that can be collected
  • colliquable — capable of dissolving
  • colonizable — Capable of being colonized.
  • combustible — A combustible material or gas catches fire and burns easily.
  • comestibles — food
  • comfortable — If a piece of furniture or an item of clothing is comfortable, it makes you feel physically relaxed when you use it, for example because it is soft.
  • commandable — able to be commanded
  • commendable — If you describe someone's behaviour as commendable, you approve of it or are praising it.
  • commentable — a remark, observation, or criticism: a comment about the weather.
  • committable — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • compactable — Capable of being compacted.
  • compactible — able to be made compact
  • companiable — sociable
  • compassable — Capable of being compassed or accomplished.
  • compellable — (of a witness) able to be made to attend court or testify.
  • compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated
  • completable — able to be completed
  • comportable — (obsolete) suitable; consistent.
  • compossible — possible in coexistence with something else
  • compostable — capable of being used as compost
  • comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
  • concealable — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
  • conceivable — If something is conceivable, you can imagine it or believe it.
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