11-letter words containing a, b, c, t
- black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
- black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
- black metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extremely nihilistic and satanic lyrics, a repetitive drum beat rapidly alternating betweeen the snare and bass drum (a blast beat), and the ghoulish make-up worn by performers (corpse paint)
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- black stump — a long way off
- black volta — a river in W Africa, rising in SW Burkina Faso and flowing northeast, then south into Lake Volta: forms part of the border of Ghana with Burkina-Faso and with Côte d'Ivoire. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)
- black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
- black watch — a regiment of Scottish infantry in the British army (so called from the dark colors in their tartan).
- black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
- black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
- blackbeetle — oriental cockroach.
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- blastematic — blastemal
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastocoele — the segmentation cavity of a developing ovum or of the blastula
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- block grant — (in Britain) an annual grant made by the government to a local authority to help to pay for the public services it provides, such as health, education, and housing
- block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
- body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
- body combat — a type of fitness programme in which individuals perform non-contact martial arts moves to music
- bolt-action — (of a rifle) equipped with a manually operated sliding bolt.
- bomb crater — the crater in the ground, pavement, etc, left in the aftermath of an explosion
- booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
- book jacket — a removable paper cover used to protect a bound book
- boston crab — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler seizes both or one of his opponent's legs, turns him face downwards, and exerts pressure over his back
- botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
- botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
- bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
- bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
- 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.
- brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
- brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
- bracteolate — having bractlets
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
- brass tacks — basic realities; hard facts (esp in the phrase get down to brass tacks)
- bratticings — a series of temporary wooden housings erected on top of a wall, esp a castle wall
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
- breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
- broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
- brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
- brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.