11-letter words containing b, y, t, e
- 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.
- befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
- belize city — a port and the largest city in Belize, on the Caribbean coast: capital until 1973, when that function was transferred inland to Belmopan owing to hurricane risk. Pop: 53 000 (2005 est)
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- bellybutton — the navel
- belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
- benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
- beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
- bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
- binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
- biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- bisymmetric — showing symmetry in two planes at right angles to each other
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blue myrtle — blueblossom.
- blytheville — a city in NE Arkansas.
- bohr theory — a theory of atomic structure that explains the spectrum of hydrogen atoms. It assumes that the electron orbiting around the nucleus can exist only in certain energy states, a jump from one state to another being accompanied by the emission or absorption of a quantum of radiation
- bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
- bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
- boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- breadthways — from side to side
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
- bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
- brown betty — a baked apple pudding made with butter, spices, sugar, and bread crumbs
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- buy-to-fret — denoting the practice of buying a property to let to tenants during a period when property values are falling
- by my certy — assuredly
- by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
- by the head — with the bow deeper in the water than the stern
- by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
- by-election — A by-election is an election that is held to choose a new member of parliament when a member has resigned or died.
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction