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11-letter words containing ll

  • best of all — You use best of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the thing that you prefer or that has most advantages out of all the things you have mentioned.
  • best seller — A best seller is a book of which a lot of copies have been sold.
  • 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.
  • bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
  • bill broker — a person whose business is the purchase and sale of bills of exchange
  • billet-doux — a love letter
  • billionaire — A billionaire is an extremely rich person who has money or property worth at least a thousand million pounds or dollars.
  • billy-bread — bread baked in a billy over a camp fire
  • bimetallism — the use of two metals, esp gold and silver, in fixed relative values as the standard of value and currency
  • bimetallist — the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard.
  • bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
  • binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
  • biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
  • bitter pill — a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow): Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.
  • black hills — a group of mountains in W South Dakota and NE Wyoming: famous for the gigantic sculptures of US presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore. Highest peak: Harney Peak, 2207 m (7242 ft)
  • black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
  • blackballed — to vote against (a candidate, applicant, etc.).
  • blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
  • blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
  • blind alley — If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
  • blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
  • blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
  • blytheville — a city in NE Arkansas.
  • boll weevil — a greyish weevil, Anthonomus grandis, of the southern US and Mexico, whose larvae live in and destroy cotton bolls
  • bontempelli — Massimo. 1878–1960, Italian dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic. His works include the play Nostra Dea (1925) and the novel The Faithful Lover (1953)
  • bookselling — the activity of selling books
  • boring mill — a large vertical lathe having a rotating table on which work is secured. Tools are held on a fixed post and the work is rotated around it
  • boston bull — Boston terrier
  • botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
  • bottle bill — a legislative bill that requires the charging of a refundable deposit on certain beverage bottles and cans, to encourage the return of these containers for recycling while at the same time reducing littering.
  • bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
  • brazzaville — the capital of Congo-Brazzaville, in the south on the River Congo. Pop: 1 153 000 (2005 est)
  • breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
  • brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
  • bridge roll — a soft bread roll in a long thin shape
  • brilliantly — shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrous: the brilliant lights of the city.
  • broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
  • broomballer — a person who plays broomball
  • brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
  • brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
  • bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
  • bucolically — of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
  • bull fiddle — double bass
  • bull header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
  • bull riding — a rodeo event in which a contestant tries to ride a bucking bull for eight seconds, with one hand holding a rope tied to a band around the bull's chest.
  • bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
  • bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
  • bull's wool — nonsense
  • bull-headed — blindly obstinate; stubborn, headstrong, or stupid
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