9-letter words containing a, l, t, e
- bee plant — any of various plants much visited by bees for nectar and pollen
- bel canto — a style of singing characterized by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
- belafonte — Harry, born 1922, U.S. singer and actor.
- belatedly — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- bell toad — a frog, Ascaphus truei, of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent Canada, the male of which has its cloaca modified into a taillike copulatory organ.
- bellatrix — the third brightest star in the constellation Orion
- beplaster — to cover in thick plaster
- best-ball — of, relating to, or denoting a match in which one player competes against the best individual totals of two or more other players at each hole
- bestially — of, relating to, or having the form of a beast: the belief that a person could assume bestial form after death; the bestial signs of the zodiac.
- beta cell — B cell (def 2).
- beta line — beta (def 6).
- betrothal — A betrothal is an agreement to be married.
- biathlete — an athlete taking part in a biathlon
- bifoliate — having only two leaves
- bilabiate — divided into two lips
- bilateral — Bilateral negotiations, meetings, or agreements, involve only the two groups or countries that are directly concerned.
- bile salt — a product of a bile acid and a base, functioning as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids for absorption in the duodenum.
- bilineate — marked with two usually parallel lines.
- biliteral — consisting of two letters
- biostable — resistant to the effects of microorganisms
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bit plane — (graphics) (Or "bitplane") The memory in a graphic display device which holds a complete one-bit-per-pixel image. Several bit planes may be used in conjunction to give more bits per pixel or to overlay several images or mask one with another. "Bit plane" may be used as a synonym for "bitmap", though the latter suggests the data itself rather than the memory and also suggests a graphics file format.
- biteplate — a device used by dentists to correct dental problems
- bivalvate — having or consisting of two valves or similar parts
- black tea — tea withered and fermented before being dried by heating
- black tie — A black tie event is a formal social event such as a party at which people wear formal clothes called evening dress.
- black-tie — requiring that guests wear semiformal attire, especially that men wear black bow ties with tuxedos or dinner jackets: a black-tie dance.
- blanchett — Cate (keɪt), full name Catherine Elise Blanchett. born 1969, Australian actress; her films include Elizabeth (1998), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03), Notes on a Scandal (2006), and Blue Jasmine (2013) for which she won an Academy Award
- blastemal — of or relating to blastema
- blastment — shrivelling up due to something in the air
- blatherer — someone who blathers
- bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
- bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
- blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
- boastless — without boasting
- bobtailed — having the tail cut short
- bombilate — to make a buzzing noise
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
- bracelets — a slang name for handcuffs
- bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
- branchlet — a small branch
- brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
- breathful — full of breath; living
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- butlerage — a butler's position or rank
- cabaletta — a short aria with a repetitive rhythm
- cable tie — a plastic strip with serrations on one end that lock inside an opening on the other end, used to bind things together, especially wires: Wrap all of the cords behind your computer with a cable tie. Officers secured the suspect’s hands with cable ties when they apprehended him.
- cablecast — the transmission of a TV programme via a cable system