11-letter words containing b, e, t, o
- beat out of — If someone beats another person out of something, they get that thing by deceiving the other person or behaving dishonestly.
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- bedding out — the process of planting out young flowering plants in beds
- bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
- beef tomato — a very large fleshy variety of tomato
- beer bottle — a bottle for beer
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
- bell-bottom — designating trousers or slacks that are flared beginning at the knee or mid-calf
- bell-topper — a tall silk hat
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- bellmouthed — having a flaring mouth or opening like that of a bell
- bellybutton — the navel
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
- belt-course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- ben trovato — appropriate and characteristic even if untrue; happily invented or discovered.
- benediction — A benediction is a kind of Christian prayer.
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- benefaction — the act of doing good, esp by giving a donation to charity
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- bent double — If someone is bent double, the top part of their body is leaning forward towards their legs, usually because they are in great pain or because they are laughing a lot. In American English, you can also say that someone is bent over double.
- benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
- benzonatate — a nonnarcotic substance, C 30 H 53 NO 11 , used as a cough suppressant.
- beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
- best effort — (networking) A classification of low priority network traffic, used especially the Internet. Different kinds of traffic have different priorities. Videoconferencing and other types of real-time communication, for example, require a certain minimum guaranteed bandwidth and latency and so must be given a high priority. Electronic mail, on the other hand, can tolerate an arbitrarily long delay and is classified as a "best-effort" service.
- best of all — You use best of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the thing that you prefer or that has most advantages out of all the things you have mentioned.
- bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
- betrothment — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
- bevel joint — a miter joint, especially one in which two pieces meet at other than a right angle.
- 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
- bicarbonate — a salt of carbonic acid containing the ion HCO3–; an acid carbonate
- bicomponent — a fibre composed of two compounds
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- bicorporate — having two bodies
- bifoliolate — (of compound leaves) consisting of two leaflets
- big brother — People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do.
- big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
- billet-doux — a love letter
- bioaeration — the oxidative treatment of raw sewage by aeration
- bioelectric — of or having to do with electrical energy in living tissues
- bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.