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11-letter words containing b, o, e

  • bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
  • bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
  • bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
  • baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
  • batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
  • battle zone — an area where a battle or battles are being fought
  • battledores — Plural form of battledore.
  • battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
  • battlewagon — a battleship
  • battologize — to repeat (a word, phrase, mannerism, etc.) excessively.
  • baudot code — (communications)   (For etymology, see baud) A character set predating EBCDIC and used originally and primarily on paper tape. Use of Baudot reportedly survives in TDDs and some HAM radio applications. In Baudot, characters are expressed using five bits. Baudot uses two code sub-sets, the "letter set" (LTRS), and the "figure set" (FIGS). The FIGS character (11011) signals that the following code is to be interpreted as being in the FIGS set, until this is reset by the LTRS (11111) character. binary hex LTRS FIGS -------------------------- 00011 03 A - 11001 19 B ? 01110 0E C : 01001 09 D $ 00001 01 E 3 01101 0D F ! 11010 1A G & 10100 14 H # 00110 06 I 8 01011 0B J BELL 01111 0F K ( 10010 12 L ) 11100 1C M . 01100 0C N , 11000 18 O 9 10110 16 P 0 10111 17 Q 1 01010 0A R 4 00101 05 S ' 10000 10 T 5 00111 07 U 7 11110 1E V ; 10011 13 W 2 11101 1D X / 10101 15 Y 6 10001 11 Z " 01000 08 CR CR 00010 02 LF LF 00100 04 SP SP 11111 1F LTRS LTRS 11011 1B FIGS FIGS 00000 00 [..unused..] Where CR is carriage return, LF is linefeed, BELL is the bell, SP is space, and STOP is the stop character. Note: these bit values are often shown in inverse order, depending (presumably) which side of the paper tape you were looking at. Local implementations of Baudot may differ in the use of #, STOP, BELL, and '.
  • bawdy house — a brothel.
  • bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
  • bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
  • be about to — If you are about to do something, you are going to do it very soon. If something is about to happen, it will happen very soon.
  • be confined — to be undergoing childbirth
  • be death on — to deal with in a devastating manner
  • be dirty on — to be offended by or be hostile towards
  • be going to — If you say that something is going to happen, you mean that it will happen in the future, usually quite soon.
  • be good for — If someone is good for something, you can rely on them to provide that thing.
  • be great on — to be informed about
  • be made one — (of a man and a woman) to become married
  • be meant to — If you say that something is meant to happen, you mean that it is expected to happen or that it ought to happen.
  • be sweet on — to be in love with
  • be to blame — to be at fault or culpable
  • beach house — a holiday house overlooking a beach
  • beach towel — a large towel used on the beach
  • beachcomber — A beachcomber is someone who spends their time wandering along beaches looking for things they can use.
  • beaker folk — a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium bc
  • beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
  • beam weapon — a laser-beam or particle-beam weapon.
  • bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
  • beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
  • beanshooter — peashooter
  • bear's-foot — either of two Eurasian hellebore plants, Helleborus foetidus or H. viridis, having leaves shaped like the foot and claws of a bear
  • beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
  • bearer bond — a bond payable to the person in possession
  • beat hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
  • beat out of — If someone beats another person out of something, they get that thing by deceiving the other person or behaving dishonestly.
  • beau dollar — a silver dollar.
  • beaugregory — a blue and yellow damselfish, Pomacentrus leucostictus, inhabiting shallow waters off Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • bed molding — a molding below a projecting part, esp. between the corona and frieze
  • 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
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