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11-letter words containing le

  • battle star — a small star worn on a campaign ribbon, awarded to a member of the armed forces for participation in a particular battle or campaign
  • battle zone — an area where a battle or battles are being fought
  • battledores — Plural form of battledore.
  • battledress — the ordinary uniform of a soldier, consisting of tunic and trousers
  • battlefield — A battlefield is a place where a battle is fought.
  • battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
  • battlements — The battlements of a castle or fortress consist of a wall built round the top, with gaps through which guns or arrows can be fired.
  • battlepiece — a painting, relief, mosaic, etc, depicting a battle, usually commemorating an actual event
  • battleplane — an airplane designed for combat; warplane.
  • battleships — Plural form of battleship.
  • battlespace — the area of air, sea, and land that is directly involved in war, often taken to include any technological, environmental, infrastructural, or temporal factors which may be relevant to the success of a mission
  • battlewagon — a battleship
  • baume scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the specific gravity of liquids. 1 degree Baumé is equal to 144.3((s–1)/s), where s is specific gravity
  • bean beetle — any of a number of beetles and weevils attacking legumes, esp. the Mexican bean beetle
  • bear leader — (formerly) a tutor traveling with a wealthy or aristocratic young man.
  • beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
  • beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
  • beer bottle — a bottle for beer
  • beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
  • beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
  • beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
  • belle glade — a city in SE Florida.
  • bellerophon — a hero of Corinth who performed many deeds with the help of the winged horse Pegasus, notably the killing of the monster Chimera
  • belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
  • bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
  • bend double — When you bend double, you bend the top half of your body downwards a long way.
  • benevolence — inclination or tendency to help or do good to others; charity
  • bensenville — a town in NE Illinois.
  • 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.
  • berkeley fp — (language)   A version of Backus's FP distributed with 4.2BSD Unix.
  • berkeleyism — any philosophical system or doctrine derived from the views of Bishop Berkeley.
  • berners-lee — Sir Tim. born 1955, British computer scientist who in 1990 created the World Wide Web
  • berzerkeley — (humour)   /b*r-zer'klee/ (From "berserk", via the name of a now-deceased record label) A humorous distortion of "Berkeley" used especially to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix hackers. See software bloat, Missed'em-five, Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s.
  • best seller — A best seller is a book of which a lot of copies have been sold.
  • bestridable — capable of being bestridden
  • beth hillel — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish spiritual leader Hillel and characterized by its systematic use of interpretive principles and a certain flexibility in interpreting the oral and written law.
  • bi-bivalent — separating into two bivalent ions
  • bible class — a class, typically one meeting weekly, for Bible study
  • bible paper — a thin tough opaque paper used for Bibles, prayer books, and reference books
  • bible story — a story from the Bible
  • biblioklept — a person who steals books.
  • bibliophile — a person who collects or is fond of books
  • bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
  • big-leaguer — Sports. a player in a major league.
  • billet-doux — a love letter
  • bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
  • bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
  • binary file — (file format)   Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
  • bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
  • binucleated — having two nuclei
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