11-letter words containing b, e, t, a, n
- 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
- betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
- betting tax — a tax on gambling
- bi-bivalent — separating into two bivalent ions
- 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
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- bioaeration — the oxidative treatment of raw sewage by aeration
- bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- 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.
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- blank slate — tabula rasa.
- blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
- blanketlike — resembling a blanket
- blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- blue mantle — one of the four pursuivants of the British College of Arms
- bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
- bon appetit — enjoy your meal