11-letter words containing a, b
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beachy head — a headland in East Sussex, on the English Channel, consisting of chalk cliffs 171 m (570 ft) high
- beaker folk — a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium bc
- beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
- beam aerial — an aerial system, such as a Yagi aerial, having directional properties
- beam engine — an early type of steam engine, in which a pivoted beam is vibrated by a vertical steam cylinder at one end, so that it transmits motion to the workload, such as a pump, at the other end
- beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
- beam search — (algorithm) An optimisation of the best first search graph search algorithm where only a predetermined number of paths are kept as candidates. The number of paths is the "width of the beam". If more paths than this are generated, the worst paths are discarded. This reduces the space requirements of best first search.
- beam weapon — a laser-beam or particle-beam weapon.
- bean beetle — any of a number of beetles and weevils attacking legumes, esp. the Mexican bean beetle
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- bean weevil — any of various beetles of the family Bruchidae (or Lariidae), the larvae of which live in the seeds of leguminous plants
- beanbag gun — a gun that fires a fabric bag containing lead shot, designed to stun or knock the target to the ground
- beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- bear a hand — to give assistance
- bear garden — (formerly) a place where bears were exhibited and where bear-baiting took place
- bear leader — (formerly) a tutor traveling with a wealthy or aristocratic young man.
- bear market — A bear market is a situation on the stock market when people are selling a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will decrease in value and that they will be able to make a profit by buying them again after a short time. Compare bull market.
- bear's-foot — either of two Eurasian hellebore plants, Helleborus foetidus or H. viridis, having leaves shaped like the foot and claws of a bear
- bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
- bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
- bearberries — Plural form of bearberry.
- bearded tit — a small European bird, Panurus biarmicus, found in reedy places, the male of which has a tuft of black feathers on each side of the face.
- beardedness — the quality of having a beard, the quality of being bearded
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- bearer bill — a bill payable to the person in possession
- bearer bond — a bond payable to the person in possession
- bearing cap — A bearing cap is a rigid, semi-circular part that fits around one half of a bearing and secures it.
- bearishness — The characteristic of being bearish.
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- beat hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- beat out of — If someone beats another person out of something, they get that thing by deceiving the other person or behaving dishonestly.
- beatificate — (obsolete, religion) To beatify.
- beau dollar — a silver dollar.
- beaugregory — a blue and yellow damselfish, Pomacentrus leucostictus, inhabiting shallow waters off Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies.
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
- beautifully — in a beautiful manner
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- beautyberry — any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.