11-letter words that end in e
- block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- 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.
- bloodmobile — a motor vehicle equipped for collecting blood from donors
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- blue cheese — cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue
- blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
- blue mantle — one of the four pursuivants of the British College of Arms
- blue myrtle — blueblossom.
- blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
- blytheville — a city in NE Arkansas.
- boat people — Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.
- bobbin lace — lace made with bobbins rather than with needle and thread (needlepoint lace); pillow lace
- 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
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- bok globule — a dense spherical cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space that absorbs light from stars.
- bokmakierie — a large yellow shrike, Telephorus zeylonus, of southern Africa, known for its melodious song
- bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
- bomb damage — damage to buildings, etc caused by the explosion of a bomb
- bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
- bonbonniere — a small decorative box used to contain sweets
- bonne femme — prepared in simple style, as in a cream sauce containing mushrooms: fillet of sole bonne femme.
- bonus issue — an issue of shares made by a company without charge and distributed pro rata among existing shareholders
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
- boojum tree — a tree, Idria columnaris, native to Baja California, having spreading spiny branches, deciduous leaves, and yellow flowers.
- booking fee — a fee that some theatre and agencies charge the customer for booking through them
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- border line — boundary line; frontier.
- boric oxide — a colorless crystalline compound, B 2 O 3 , used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.
- borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
- bottle tree — any of several Australian sterculiaceous trees of the genus Sterculia (or Brachychiton) that have a bottle-shaped swollen trunk
- bottom line — The bottom line in a decision or situation is the most important factor that you have to consider.
- bottom time — the total time, in minutes, from the beginning of a descent to the beginning of an ascent.
- boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
- boumedienne — Houari (ˈhaʊərɪ). 1927–78, Algerian statesman and soldier: president of Algeria (1965–78) after overthrowing Ben Bella in a coup
- bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
- bouquetiere — an assortment of fresh vegetables
- bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
- boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
- bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
- bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
- box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
- 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