11-letter words containing a, b
- beaver away — If you are beavering away at something, you are working very hard at it.
- beaver tail — a flat oval doughnut served fried and sugared
- beaverboard — a stiff light board of compressed wood fibre, used esp to surface partitions
- beaverbrook — 1st Baron, title of William Maxwell Aitken. 1879–1964, British newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician, born in Canada, whose newspapers included the Daily Express; minister of information (1918); minister of aircraft production (1940–41)
- beavercreek — a town in SW Ohio.
- beckenbauer — Franz. born 1945, German footballer: team captain when West Germany won the World Cup (1974): manager of West Germany (1984–90), coaching the team to success in the 1990 World Cup
- bed and pep — (of a stock-exchange transaction) complying with regulations for self-select PEPs, a shareholding being sold in the evening and bought back the next morning for the shareholder's own PEP
- bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
- beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
- beef tomato — a very large fleshy variety of tomato
- been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
- beer barrel — a barrel for, or containing beer
- beer garden — a garden attached to a pub, where people can sit and drink beer
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- before dark — If you do something before dark, you do it before the sun sets and night begins.
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
- behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
- beilan pass — a mountain pass in SE Turkey near Syria. 2395 feet (730 meters).
- belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
- belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
- bell beaker — a bell-shaped beaker, especially one associated with the Beaker folk.
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- belle glade — a city in SE Florida.
- belligerati — intellectuals, such as writers, who advocate war or imperialism
- belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
- belly laugh — A belly laugh is a very loud, deep laugh.
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
- ben trovato — appropriate and characteristic even if untrue; happily invented or discovered.
- ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
- benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
- bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
- bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
- benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
- benderboard — pliable, lightweight board used for making concrete patios, in gardens, and as woven fencing: often 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) wide and 1/4 to 1/2 inch (0.6 to 1.2 cm) thick and made from California redwood.
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- benefaction — the act of doing good, esp by giving a donation to charity
- benefactive — of or relating to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction