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11-letter words containing a, b, e, t

  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
  • bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • brattleboro — a town in SE Vermont.
  • bread plate — A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal.
  • breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • break it up — stop fighting
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • breast beam — a horizontal bar, located at the front of a loom, over which the woven material is passed on its way to the cloth roll.
  • breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
  • breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
  • breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
  • breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
  • breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
  • breath test — A breath test is a test carried out by police in which a driver blows into a piece of equipment to show how much alcohol he or she has drunk.
  • breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
  • breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
  • breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
  • breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
  • 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.
  • broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
  • 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.
  • bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
  • brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • bubble bath — Bubble bath is a liquid that smells nice and makes a lot of bubbles when you add it to your bath water.
  • bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
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