11-letter words containing b, e, l, i, t
- beautifully — in a beautiful manner
- beaver tail — a flat oval doughnut served fried and sugared
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- bedevilment — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
- beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
- belize city — a port and the largest city in Belize, on the Caribbean coast: capital until 1973, when that function was transferred inland to Belmopan owing to hurricane risk. Pop: 53 000 (2005 est)
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- belligerati — intellectuals, such as writers, who advocate war or imperialism
- belligerent — A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- belted tire — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- beth hillel — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish spiritual leader Hillel and characterized by its systematic use of interpretive principles and a certain flexibility in interpreting the oral and written law.
- bevel joint — a miter joint, especially one in which two pieces meet at other than a right angle.
- bi-bivalent — separating into two bivalent ions
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- biblioklept — a person who steals books.
- bibliolater — someone who reveres the Bible
- bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
- bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
- bifoliolate — (of compound leaves) consisting of two leaflets
- bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
- bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
- billet-doux — a love letter
- bimetallism — the use of two metals, esp gold and silver, in fixed relative values as the standard of value and currency
- bimetallist — the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard.
- bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- bioelectric — of or having to do with electrical energy in living tissues
- biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- bitter lake — a salt lake containing in solution a high concentration of sulfates, carbonates, and chlorides.
- bitter pill — a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow): Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blanketlike — resembling a blanket
- blastematic — blastemal
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- bleed white — to deprive slowly of resources
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blind tiger — speak-easy