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11-letter words containing b, e, a, k

  • backstreets — Plural form of backstreet.
  • backstretch — the part of a racetrack farthest from the grandstand and opposite and parallel to the homestretch
  • backstroker — a person who swims the backstroke, especially a member of a competitive swimming team who specializes in the backstroke.
  • backstrokes — Plural form of backstroke.
  • backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
  • backtracked — Simple past tense and past participle of backtrack.
  • backtracker — One who, or that which, backtracks.
  • badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
  • bake-wares' — heat-resistant dishes, as of glass or pottery, in which food may be baked; ovenware.
  • baked beans — Baked beans are dried beans cooked in tomato sauce in Britain or cooked with salt pork in North America. Baked beans are usually sold in cans.
  • bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
  • ball hockey — a game similar to ice hockey, but played on foot on a hard surface without ice, using a hard plastic ball instead of a puck
  • ballbreaker — a person, esp a woman, whose character and behaviour may be regarded as threatening a man's sense of power
  • banded pack — two products which are held together with a band and sold together at a discounted price
  • bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
  • bank robber — someone who steals from a bank, often using violence
  • barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
  • bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
  • barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
  • bark beetle — any small beetle of the family Scolytidae, which bore tunnels in the bark and wood of trees, causing great damage. They are closely related to the weevils
  • barley sack — a burlap bag.
  • barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
  • basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
  • baskerville — a style of type
  • basket case — If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.
  • basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
  • basket fish — basket star.
  • basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
  • basket star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, especially of the genus Gorgonocephalus, having long, slender, branching arms.
  • basket-star — any of several echinoderms of the genus Gorgonocephalus, in which long slender arms radiate from a central disc: order Ophiuroidea (brittle-stars)
  • basketballs — Plural form of basketball.
  • basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.
  • basketweave — a weave of two or more yarns together, resembling that of a basket, esp in wool or linen fabric
  • bateau neck — boat neck.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
  • 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
  • before dark — If you do something before dark, you do it before the sun sets and night begins.
  • bell beaker — a bell-shaped beaker, especially one associated with the Beaker folk.
  • bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
  • bird's beak — beak (def 9).
  • bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
  • black alder — a deciduous shrub (Ilex verticillata) of the holly family, native to E North America, with glossy leaves that turn black in the fall and bright-red berries
  • black bread — a kind of very dark coarse rye bread
  • black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
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