11-letter words containing c, a, t, s
- auscultated — Simple past tense and past participle of auscultate.
- auscultates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of auscultate.
- auspicating — Present participle of auspicate.
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- autochthons — Plural form of autochthon.
- autocracies — Plural form of autocracy.
- autodidacts — Plural form of autodidact.
- autofocuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of autofocus.
- autoplastic — Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
- awestricken — filled with awe.
- back stairs — stairs at the back of a house, as for use by servants.
- back street — A back street in a town or city is a small, narrow street with very little traffic.
- back-stitch — stitching or a stitch in which the thread is doubled back on the preceding stitch.
- back-street — taking place in secrecy and often illegally: back-street political maneuvering; back-street drug dealing.
- backcasting — Present participle of backcast.
- backlisting — Present participle of backlist.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
- baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
- barracootas — Plural form of barracoota.
- barracoutas — Plural form of barracouta.
- basic steel — steel produced by the basic process.
- 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
- beach aster — a seaside plant, Erigeron glaucus, of the temperate western coast of North America, having solitary, violet- or lilac-colored flowers.
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
- biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisociation — the association of one idea with two different contexts