11-letter words containing b, e, t, w
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- counterblow — a retaliatory blow
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- elbow joint — the joint between the upper arm and the forearm, formed by the junction of the radius and ulna with the humerus
- embowelment — a disembowelment
- embowerment — the act of embowering
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- in bed with — in collusion with
- jew-baiting — active anti-Semitism.
- kerb weight — the weight of a motor car without occupants, luggage, etc
- know better — be sufficiently wise
- late hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 through the 13th century, including Mishnaic Hebrew and Medieval Hebrew.
- lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
- misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
- new britain — the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, in the W central Pacific Ocean. About 14,600 sq. mi. (37,814 sq. km). Capital: Rabaul.
- newburyport — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
- oxbow chest — a chest of drawers having a front convex at the sides and concave in the center without vertical divisions.
- powerboater — a powerboat owner or operator.
- robert owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
- sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- sweet basil — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Ocimum, of the mint family, as O. basilicum (sweet basil) having purplish-green ovate leaves used in cooking.
- sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.
- sweet herbs — sweet-smelling herbs that are grown specifically for cooking
- sweet shrub — Carolina allspice.
- sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- the beltway — Washington, D.C., esp. as regarded as the center of U.S. government and politics: so called from the expressway around the District of Columbia & nearby areas
- thimbleweed — any of several plants having a thimble-shaped fruiting head, especially either of two white-flowered North American plants, Anemone riparia or A. virginiana.
- timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
- toilet bowl — the ceramic bowl of a toilet.
- tower block — a high-rise building.
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
- trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
- tumble down — collapse, fall
- tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- twin-bedded — A twin-bedded room has two single beds.
- unbeknownst — unknown; unperceived; without one's knowledge (usually followed by to).
- unwatchable — detectable; apparent.
- waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
- war cabinet — government wartime committee
- warrantable — capable of being warranted.
- wastebasket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
- water brash — heartburn (def 1).
- water table — the planar, underground surface beneath which earth materials, as soil or rock, are saturated with water.
- water-borne — A water-borne disease or infection is one that people can catch from infected water.
- wattlebirds — Plural form of wattlebird.