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13-letter words containing ll

  • authentically — not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.
  • automagically — automatically; in a way that is hidden from or not understood by the user, and in that sense, apparently “magical”: I downloaded an app that automagically adds a travel itinerary to my calendar whenever I buy a plane ticket.
  • automatically — without volition or from force of habit; mechanically: Whenever I hear that song, I automatically think of my dad.
  • autonomically — autonomous.
  • avocationally — in one's leisure time
  • axiomatically — pertaining to or of the nature of an axiom; self-evident; obvious.
  • ayurvedically — As a practitioner of Ayurveda; in an Ayurvedic way.
  • bacillophobia — The fear of microbes. Also known as germaphobia.
  • back and fill — to manoeuvre the sails by alternately filling and emptying them of wind to navigate in a narrow place
  • backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
  • backward roll — a gymnastic roll that is performed with the feet going first and the rest of the body and the head following
  • bakewell tart — an open tart having a pastry base and a layer of jam and filled with almond-flavoured sponge cake
  • ball and ring — a simplified bead-and-reel turning, used especially in English and American furniture of the 17th century.
  • ball handling — the control of the ball, as in basketball or soccer, by skillful dribbling and accurate passing.
  • ball the jack — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • ballad stanza — a four-line stanza, often used in ballads, in which the second and fourth lines rhyme and have three stresses each and the first and third lines are unrhymed and have four stresses each
  • ballet dancer — a man or woman who takes part in ballet dancing, usually professionally
  • ballet lesson — a class in which ballet is taught
  • ballet master — a man who teaches and rehearses the dancers in a ballet company
  • ballet school — a school where professional ballet dancers are trained
  • ballistically — of or relating to ballistics.
  • ballistospore — a spore, esp a fungal spore, that is forcefully ejected from its source
  • balloon chuck — a lathe chuck having the form of a hollow hemisphere, for enclosing and holding small parts, as balance staffs of watches, so that only their ends are exposed.
  • balloon clock — a bracket clock of the late 18th century, having a round dial on a short case with concave sides resting on bracket feet.
  • balloon frame — a wooden building frame composed of machine-sawed scantlings fastened with nails, having studs rising the full height of the frame with the joists nailed to the studs and supported by sills or by ribbons let into the studs.
  • balloon shade — a window shade that when raised is gathered into a series of puffy festoons created by inverted pleats in the fabric.
  • balloon-berry — strawberry-raspberry.
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • banker's bill — a banknote
  • bar billiards — a table game in pubs, etc, in which short cues are used to pocket balls into holes scoring various points and guarded by wooden pegs that incur penalties if they are knocked over
  • bar-and-grill — a place where food and alcoholic drinks are served to customers; a combined barroom and grillroom.
  • barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • baronial hall — a large building or room owned by a baron
  • base on balls — walk
  • bazillionaire — (humorous) An incredibly rich person.
  • beau brummell — any dandy or fop
  • beef bouillon — a broth made either by straining water in which bits of lean beef have been cooked or by dissolving beef extract in hot water.
  • beer-swilling — in the habit of drinking a lot of beer
  • behaviourally — from a behavioural point of view
  • bell purchase — a tackle consisting of two standing single blocks, two running single blocks, a fall, and a runner, so arranged that it gives a mechanical advantage of six, neglecting friction.
  • bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
  • belligerently — aggressively
  • belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
  • belly of pork — a fatty cut of meat from the pig's belly
  • belly-flopper — an awkward, usually unintentional dive in which the front of the body strikes the water horizontally, the abdomen or chest bearing the brunt of the impact.
  • bernoulli box — (storage)   A high capacity storage device, Iomega Corporation's first popular product, that spins a mylar disk over a read-write head using the Bernoulli principle.
  • bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
  • bevelled edge — an inclined edge; one not at 90 degrees
  • beverly hills — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles: famous as the home of film stars. Pop: 34 941 (2003 est)
  • beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
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