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

  • boniface ix — (Pietro Tomacelli) died 1404, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1389–1404.
  • boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
  • book jacket — a removable paper cover used to protect a bound book
  • bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
  • bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
  • bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
  • bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • brace table — a table giving the lengths of the hypotenuses of right isosceles triangles of varying sizes: used especially for calculating the lengths of diagonal braces.
  • braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
  • bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
  • bracteolate — having bractlets
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • brake block — the part of the brake in a train or on a bicycle that is applied to the wheel to slow the vehicle down or stop it
  • brake cable — a cable that connects a brake handle, pedal, or lever to a vehicle's braking mechanism
  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1.   (web)   Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2.   (programming)   Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
  • break dance — an acrobatic dance style originating in the 1980s
  • breakdancer — a person who does breakdancing
  • brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
  • breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • broad-faced — having a broad, wide face.
  • broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
  • broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
  • 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.
  • broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • bubble card — blister pack.
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
  • bureaucracy — A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials.
  • burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
  • buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
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