11-letter words containing c, i, b, a, t
- basic steel — steel produced by the basic process.
- bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
- batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- batological — relating to the study of brambles
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- battlepiece — a painting, relief, mosaic, etc, depicting a battle, usually commemorating an actual event
- beach drift — the drifting of sediments, especially marine sediments, in patterns parallel to the contours of a beach, due to the action of waves and currents.
- beatificate — (obsolete, religion) To beatify.
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
- 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.
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
- bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
- 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.
- bicorporate — having two bodies
- bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- bioactivity — any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- bioclimatic — concerning the relations between climate and living organisms
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
- biquadratic — of or relating to the fourth power
- birth canal — the passageway down which the fetus passes during birth
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisociation — the association of one idea with two different contexts
- bisociative — relating to bisociation
- black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
- black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blastematic — blastemal
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
- bolt-action — (of a rifle) equipped with a manually operated sliding bolt.
- botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
- brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
- brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.