11-letter words containing b, i, t, e, s
- bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
- bastnaesite — a rare yellow to reddish-brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of fluorine and several lanthanide metals. It occurs in association with zinc and is a source of the lanthanides. Formula: LaFCO3
- bath tissue — toilet paper.
- battleships — Plural form of battleship.
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- 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
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- besiegement — the state of being besieged
- best friend — a dearest friend
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- betsiamites — a river in E Quebec, Canada, flowing SE to the St. Lawrence River. 240 miles (386 km) long.
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
- bimetallism — the use of two metals, esp gold and silver, in fixed relative values as the standard of value and currency
- bimetallist — the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard.
- bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
- 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.
- biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
- biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
- biomimetics — the study and development of synthetic systems that mimic the formation, function, or structure of biologically produced substances and materials and biological mechanisms and processes.
- bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
- bird's nest — the nest of a bird
- bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- bisociative — relating to bisociation
- bisymmetric — showing symmetry in two planes at right angles to each other
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
- bittercress — one of several perennial or annual plants of the genus Cardamine, that are related to lady's-smock, including hairy bittercress (C. hirsuta), a common weed resembling shepherd's purse, with which it is often confused: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- bittersweet — If you describe an experience as bittersweet, you mean that it has some happy aspects and some sad ones.
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blastematic — blastemal
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- bored stiff — very bored
- bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
- brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks