12-letter words containing b
- avoidability — The possibility of avoiding; the state or condition of being avoidable.
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- axel heiberg — the largest island belonging to the Sverdrup group in the Canadian Northwest Territories. 15,779 sq. mi. (40,868 sq. km).
- axillary bud — a bud that is borne at the axil of a leaf and is capable of developing into a branch shoot or flower cluster.
- b chromosome — a type of densely staining chromosome of uncertain biological function, found in many plant and animal species.
- b lymphocyte — B cell.
- b'nai b'rith — a Jewish fraternal organization founded in New York in 1843, having moral, philanthropic, social, educational, and political aims
- b-lymphocyte — a type of lymphocyte, originating in bone marrow, that produces antibodies
- b-s particle — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.
- baba au rhum — a light cake raised with yeast, containing raisins and dried fruits and soaked in a rum syrup
- baba gannouj — a salad of cooked eggplant, olive oil, garlic, etc.
- baba ghanouj — a Middle Eastern dish, a puree of broiled eggplant usually with garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, eaten with pita as an appetizer
- babcock test — a test for determining the butterfat content of milk and milk products, conducted by adding sulfuric acid to a sample and then centrifuging it in a flask with a calibrated neck in which the liquefied fat collects.
- babe-in-arms — a young baby that has to be carried
- babian jiang — a river in S China, flowing SE to the Red River in N Vietnam. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- babingtonite — a rare, slightly magnetic, black or dark green silicate mineral, Ca2Fe2Si5O14OH, found in cavities in volcanic rock
- baby boomlet — a period of increase in the birthrate, smaller than a baby boom, as in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s.
- baby brother — a younger brother
- baby carrier — a kind of sling or rucksack used to carry small babies either on one's chest or one's back
- baby monitor — a device that transmits sounds made by a baby to another room
- baby's-tears — a mosslike plant, Soleirolia (or Helxine) soleirolii, of the nettle family, native to Corsica and Sardinia, having small, roundish leaves and minute flowers.
- baby-bouncer — a seat on springs suspended from a door frame, etc, in which a baby may be placed for exercise
- baccalaurean — of a baccalaureate
- baccalauréat — (esp in France) a school-leaving examination that qualifies the successful candidates for entrance to university
- bacchanalian — characterized by or involving drunken revelry
- bach trumpet — a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music
- bachelor pad — a flat in which a bachelor lives
- bachelorette — A bachelorette is a woman who has never married.
- bachelorhood — the state of being a bachelor.
- bachelorship — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- back catalog — A musical performer's back catalog is the music that they recorded and released in the past rather than their latest recordings.
- back channel — an unofficial, often secret, means of communication
- back country — The back country is an area that is a long way from any city and has very few people living in it.
- back molding — a molding, as a backband, applied to interior window and door trim to conceal the edge of the wall surface.
- back passage — People sometimes refer to their rectum as their back passage.
- back scatter — the deflection of nuclear particles or of radiation in a scattering process through an angle greater than 90°.
- back stretch — the straight part of a race track opposite the part leading to the finish line.
- back to back — (of two similar events) following one immediately after the other; in unbroken sequence; consecutively: After losing all day, he picked winners back to back in the last two races.
- back to taws — back to the beginning
- back-kitchen — a room off a main kitchen, usually further towards the back of the house where washing-up or preparatory cooking work might be done; a scullery
- back-patting — an act or instance of offering praise or congratulation: The winners indulged in a certain amount of mutual back-patting.
- back-slapper — the practice of making a loud and effusive display of friendliness, cordiality, etc., as by slapping persons on the back.
- back-stabbed — to attempt to discredit (a person) by underhanded means, as innuendo, accusation, or the like.
- back-stopped — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- back-to-back — Back-to-back wins or victories are victories that are gained one after another without any defeats between them.
- backbenchers — Plural form of backbencher.
- backboneless — lacking backbone; cowardly
- backbreakers — Plural form of backbreaker.
- backbreaking — demanding great effort; exhausting
- backcourtman — any of the players stationed in the backcourt; a guard