11-letter words containing a, n, t, e, r
- baronetical — pertaining to baronets
- barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
- barquentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
- barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
- barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
- basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
- basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
- 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
- battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
- baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
- be great on — to be informed about
- 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
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- 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.
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- 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.
- better than — superior to
- bicarbonate — a salt of carbonic acid containing the ion HCO3–; an acid carbonate
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
- bioaeration — the oxidative treatment of raw sewage by aeration
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- bit pattern — (data) A sequence of bits, in a memory, a communications channel or some other device. The term is used to contrast this with some higher level interpretation of the bits such as an integer or an image. A bit string is similar but suggests an arbitrary, as opposed to predetermined, length.
- bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
- bonaventura — Saint, called the Seraphic Doctor. 1221–74, Italian Franciscan monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher; author of a Life of St Francis and Journey of the Soul to God. Feast day: July 14
- bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
- bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- botheration — bother
- 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.
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
- 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.
- 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.