11-letter words containing b, r, i, t, c
- contributor — You can use contributor to refer to one of the causes of an event or situation, especially if that event or situation is an unpleasant one.
- contrivable — Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
- conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
- convertible — A convertible is a car with a soft roof that can be folded down or removed.
- convertibly — In a convertible manner.
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- corbie-step — any of a set of steps on the top of a gable
- correctible — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- credibility — If someone or something has credibility, people believe in them and trust them.
- crib-biting — a harmful habit of horses in which the animal leans on the manger or seizes it with the teeth and swallows a gulp of air
- cricket bat — a specially shaped, carved wooden bat used to play cricket
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- cryptobiont — any organism that exhibits cryptobiosis
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- cyberethics — Ethics in cyberspace.
- cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
- cybernetics — Cybernetics is science which involves studying the way electronic machines and human brains work, and developing machines that do things or think like people.
- debt crisis — a situation in which the large debts owed by a number of individuals, organizations or countries threaten to overwhelm them, so that they become unable to service their debts which, in turn, may threaten the stability of larger structures
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- dithyrambic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a dithyramb, or an impassioned oration.
- embarcation — Alternative form of embarkation.
- embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
- embrocation — A liquid used for rubbing on the body to relieve pain from sprains and strains.
- eubacterial — (biology) Of or pertaining to the Eubacteria.
- eubacterium — A bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement. The group comprises the “ true ” bacteria and cyanobacteria, as distinct from archaebacteria.
- exorbitance — The state or characteristic of being exorbitant.
- exorbitancy — Alternative form of exorbitance.
- extractible — Capable of being extracted.
- fabricating — Present participle of fabricate.
- fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
- fabricators — Plural form of fabricator.
- fibre optic — using or consisting of very thin flexible fibres of glass down which information modulated on light is carried
- fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
- fibrocystic — showing or having the increased fibrosis associated with dilated glandular structure, as in the breast nodules of fibrocystic disease.
- fibronectin — a fibrous protein that binds to collagen, fibrin, and other proteins and also to the cell membranes, functioning as an anchor and connector.
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- id bracelet — a bracelet, usually of metal links, having an identification plate for the name of the wearer.
- imbricating — Present participle of imbricate.
- imbrication — an overlapping, as of tiles or shingles.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- inscrutably — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- interbranch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- interscribe — to write between