11-letter words containing b, e
- beautifully — in a beautiful manner
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
- 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.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- beautyberry — any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.
- beaver away — If you are beavering away at something, you are working very hard at it.
- beaver tail — a flat oval doughnut served fried and sugared
- beaverboard — a stiff light board of compressed wood fibre, used esp to surface partitions
- beaverbrook — 1st Baron, title of William Maxwell Aitken. 1879–1964, British newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician, born in Canada, whose newspapers included the Daily Express; minister of information (1918); minister of aircraft production (1940–41)
- beavercreek — a town in SW Ohio.
- beblubbered — tearstained, covered in tears from weeping
- beckenbauer — Franz. born 1945, German footballer: team captain when West Germany won the World Cup (1974): manager of West Germany (1984–90), coaching the team to success in the 1990 World Cup
- becket bend — sheet bend
- bed and pep — (of a stock-exchange transaction) complying with regulations for self-select PEPs, a shareholding being sold in the evening and bought back the next morning for the shareholder's own PEP
- bed molding — a molding below a projecting part, esp. between the corona and frieze
- bed-wetting — the act or habit of involuntarily urinating in bed
- bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- bedding out — the process of planting out young flowering plants in beds
- bedevilling — (British) present participle of bedevil.
- bedevilment — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- bedizenment — That which bedizens.
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
- bedside rug — a rug beside a bed
- bee's knees — an excellent or ideally suitable person or thing
- beech grove — a grove of beech trees
- beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
- beef tomato — a very large fleshy variety of tomato
- beefburgers — Plural form of beefburger.
- been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
- beer barrel — a barrel for, or containing beer
- beer bottle — a bottle for beer
- beer engine — a pump used to draw beer from a cask
- beer garden — a garden attached to a pub, where people can sit and drink beer
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
- before dark — If you do something before dark, you do it before the sun sets and night begins.
- before long — If you say that something will happen or happened before long, you mean that it will happen or happened soon.
- beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- 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.
- behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
- behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
- behind line — the line over which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
- behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind