7-letter words containing b, e, t
- battler — a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of Waterloo.
- battles — Plural form of battle.
- batture — A sea bed or a river bed that has been raised or elevated.
- battute — a beat.
- batuque — a Brazilian round dance of African origin.
- bautzen — a town in E Germany, in Saxony: site of an indecisive battle in 1813 between Napoleon's army and an allied army of Russians and Prussians. Pop: 42 160 (2003 est)
- bauxite — Bauxite is a clay-like substance from which aluminium is obtained.
- bayonet — A bayonet is a long, sharp blade that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon.
- be cast — (of a sheep) to have fallen and been unable to rise
- beamlet — a small beam of light
- bearcat — Informal. a person or thing that fights or acts with force or fierceness.
- bearest — (archaic) Second-person singular present simple form of 'bear'.
- beareth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bear.
- beastie — a small animal
- beastly — If you describe something as beastly, you mean that it is very unpleasant.
- beat it — to go away
- beat up — If someone beats a person up, they hit or kick the person many times.
- beat-up — Informal. dilapidated; in poor condition from use: a beat-up old jalopy.
- beatbox — a drum machine
- beaters — Plural form of beater.
- beatify — When the Catholic church beatifies someone who is dead, it declares officially that they were a holy person, usually as the first step towards making them a saint.
- beating — If someone is given a beating, they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick.
- beatles — TheBrit. rock group (1961-70) including John Lennon (1940-80), Ringo Starr (born Richard Starkey) (1940- ), (James) Paul McCartney (1942- ; knighted 1997), & George Harrison (1943-2001)
- beatnik — Beatniks were young people in the late 1950's who rejected traditional ways of living, dressing, and behaving. People sometimes use the word beatnik to refer to anyone who lives in an unconventional way.
- beatrix — full name Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard. born 1938, queen of the Netherlands (1980–2013); abdicated in favour of her eldest son Willem-Alexander
- beattie — James, 1735–1803, Scottish poet.
- beautie — Obsolete spelling of beauty.
- beckets — Plural form of becket.
- beckett — Dame Margaret Mary. born 1943, British Labour politician; leader of the House of Commons (1998–2001); secretary of state for environment, food, and rural affairs (2001–2006); foreign secretary (2006– 07)
- becrust — to cover with crust
- bed tea — (in some Asian countries) tea served to a guest in bed in the morning
- bed-sit — bed-sitter.
- bedfast — bedridden
- bedight — to array or adorn
- bedirty — to make (thoroughly) dirty
- bedmate — bedfellow (def 1).
- bedpost — A bedpost is one of the four vertical supports at the corners of a bed with an old-fashioned wooden or iron frame.
- bedrest — (medicine) confinement to bed in order to recover from an illness.
- bedsite — A recess in a room for a bed.
- bedtick — a bag with the dimensions of a mattress, which is filled with stuffing such as feathers or straw for sleeping on
- bedtime — Your bedtime is the time when you usually go to bed.
- beermat — A beermat is a cardboard mat for resting your glass of beer on in a bar or pub.
- beetfly — a muscid fly, Pegomyia hyoscyami: a common pest of beets and mangel-wurzels
- beetled — Projecting over.
- beetler — a person who operates a beetling machine,
- beetles — Plural form of beetle.
- behight — a vow or promise
- beignet — a square deep-fried pastry served hot and sprinkled with icing sugar
- belated — A belated action happens later than it should have done.
- belfast — the capital of Northern Ireland, a port on Belfast Lough in Belfast district, Co Antrim and Co Down: became the centre of Irish Protestantism and of the linen industry in the 17th century; seat of the Northern Ireland assembly and executive. Pop: 281 000 (2011 est)