11-letter words containing a, n, t, b
- bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
- batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
- battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
- batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
- battle line — the line along which troops are positioned for battle
- battle plan — the strategy to be used in a military engagement.
- battle zone — an area where a battle or battles are being fought
- battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
- battlements — The battlements of a castle or fortress consist of a wall built round the top, with gaps through which guns or arrows can be fired.
- battleplane — an airplane designed for combat; warplane.
- battlewagon — a battleship
- baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
- bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
- be death on — to deal with in a devastating manner
- be great on — to be informed about
- be meant to — If you say that something is meant to happen, you mean that it is expected to happen or that it ought to happen.
- 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.
- beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- benjaminite — a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
- benzonatate — a nonnarcotic substance, C 30 H 53 NO 11 , used as a cough suppressant.
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
- bertrandite — a mineral, hydrous beryllium silicate, Be 4 Si 2 O 7 (OH) 2 , colorless or pale yellow, with a vitreous luster, occurring as tabular or prismatic crystals in pegmatites and hydrothermal veins.
- bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
- better than — superior to