11-letter words that end in le
- bass fiddle — double bass.
- batter pile — a pile driven at an angle to the vertical.
- 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
- beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
- beer bottle — a bottle for beer
- 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.
- 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.
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- bibliophile — a person who collects or is fond of books
- 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.
- biomolecule — a molecule occurring naturally in living organisms
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- black maple — a tree, Acer saccharum nigrum, of eastern and central North America, having furrowed, blackish bark and yellow-green flowers.
- black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
- blackbeetle — oriental cockroach.
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastocoele — the segmentation cavity of a developing ovum or of the blastula
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- bloodmobile — a motor vehicle equipped for collecting blood from donors
- blue mantle — one of the four pursuivants of the British College of Arms
- blue myrtle — blueblossom.
- 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.
- 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
- bok globule — a dense spherical cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space that absorbs light from stars.
- 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.
- brake cable — a cable that connects a brake handle, pedal, or lever to a vehicle's braking mechanism
- brazzaville — the capital of Congo-Brazzaville, in the south on the River Congo. Pop: 1 153 000 (2005 est)
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- bronchocele — dilatation of a bronchus.
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- bull fiddle — double bass
- bullet hole — hole made by a bullet
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
- cancellable — able to be cancelled
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
- carbimazole — a drug that inhibits the synthesis of the hormone thyroxine, used in the management of hyperthyroidism
- carpet tile — a tile made of carpeting material that is used for flooring.
- catonsville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- cedar apple — a brown gall on the branches of the juniper, produced by several rust fungi of the genus Gymnosporangium.
- centerville — a town in W Ohio.
- cephalocele — a protrusion of the brain or cranial matter through an opening in the skull
- certifiable — If you describe someone as certifiable, you think that their behaviour is extremely unreasonable or foolish.