11-letter words containing c, e, n
- benedictine — A Benedictine is a monk or nun who is a member of a Christian religious community that follows the rule of St. Benedict.
- benediction — A benediction is a kind of Christian prayer.
- benedictive — relating to a benediction or blessing
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- benefaction — the act of doing good, esp by giving a donation to charity
- benefactive — of or relating to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beneficence — the act of doing good; kindness
- beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- benevolence — inclination or tendency to help or do good to others; charity
- benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
- benue-congo — a branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages, consisting of the Bantu languages together with certain other languages of W Africa
- bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
- bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
- bewitchment — the state of being bewitched
- bicarbonate — a salt of carbonic acid containing the ion HCO3–; an acid carbonate
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- bicomponent — a fibre composed of two compounds
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- big science — scientific research that requires a large investment of capital
- binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
- binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
- bing cherry — a dark-red variety of sweet cherry
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- biocenology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of biological communities and the interactions among their members.
- biocoenosis — a diverse community inhabiting a single biotope
- biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
- biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
- biomedicine — the medical study of the effects of unusual environmental stress on human beings, esp in connection with space travel
- bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
- blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
- block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
- blonde lace — a French pillow lace, originally of unbleached cream-coloured Chinese silk, later of bleached or black-dyed silk
- blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
- blue screen — a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence
- blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
- bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
- bobbin lace — lace made with bobbins rather than with needle and thread (needlepoint lace); pillow lace
- bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
- boniface ii — pope a.d. 530–532.
- boniface iv — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.