11-letter words containing b, s, c
- backlashing — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backlisting — Present participle of backlist.
- backmarkers — Plural form of backmarker.
- backpackers — Plural form of backpacker.
- backscatter — the scattering of particles or radiation, such as sound waves, X-rays, or alpha-particles, by the atoms of the medium through which they pass, in the backward direction
- backscratch — a favour done for someone in return for another
- backseaters — Plural form of backseater.
- backside-to — backend-to.
- backslapped — Simple past tense and past participle of backslap.
- backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
- backslashed — Simple past tense and past participle of backslash.
- backslashes — Plural form of backslash.
- backslidden — Past participle of backslide.
- backsliding — If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.
- backsolving — Present participle of backsolve.
- backspacing — Present participle of backspace.
- backstabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of backstab.
- backstabber — someone who attacks another deceitfully, behind his or her back
- backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
- backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- backstreets — Plural form of backstreet.
- backstretch — the part of a racetrack farthest from the grandstand and opposite and parallel to the homestretch
- backstroker — a person who swims the backstroke, especially a member of a competitive swimming team who specializes in the backstroke.
- backstrokes — Plural form of backstroke.
- backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
- backwashing — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
- bacteriosis — any bacterial disease
- bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
- baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
- badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
- baitcasting — (angling) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure).
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
- bancassurer — a bank that sells insurance products
- barley sack — a burlap bag.
- baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
- barracootas — Plural form of barracoota.
- barracoutas — Plural form of barracouta.
- base clause — the initial element of a recursive definition, that defines the first element of the infinite sequence generated thereby
- basic cobol — (language) A subset of COBOL from COBOL-60 standards.
- basic dress — a simple, usually dark dress that may be worn with various accessories or in combination with other garments so that it is suitable for different occasions.
- basic steel — steel produced by the basic process.
- basicranial — of or relating to the base of the skull
- basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
- basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
- basket case — If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.
- bastard cut — (of a file) having medium teeth; intermediate between a coarse cut and a fine cut
- bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- battlespace — the area of air, sea, and land that is directly involved in war, often taken to include any technological, environmental, infrastructural, or temporal factors which may be relevant to the success of a mission