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11-letter words containing c, r, e, a

  • averruncate — to avert, to turn away
  • awestricken — filled with awe.
  • axonometric — of or relating to a projection method of representing three-dimensional objects on a flat surface
  • azotobacter — any bacterium of the family Azotobacteriaceae, important in nitrogen fixation in the soil
  • bacciferous — bearing berries
  • bachelordom — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
  • bachelorism — bachelorhood
  • back boiler — a tank or series of pipes at the back of a fireplace for heating water
  • back burner — If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important.
  • back garden — a garden at the rear of a house
  • back matter — the parts of a book, such as the index and appendices, that follow the main text
  • back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
  • back street — A back street in a town or city is a small, narrow street with very little traffic.
  • back-burner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
  • back-street — taking place in secrecy and often illegally: back-street political maneuvering; back-street drug dealing.
  • backbencher — A backbencher is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in their political party.
  • backbreaker — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler uses his knee or shoulder as a fulcrum to bend his opponent's body backwards
  • backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
  • backcrosses — Plural form of backcross.
  • backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
  • backmarkers — Plural form of backmarker.
  • backpackers — Plural form of backpacker.
  • 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
  • backseaters — Plural form of backseater.
  • backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
  • backstabber — someone who attacks another deceitfully, behind his or her back
  • 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.
  • backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
  • backtracked — Simple past tense and past participle of backtrack.
  • backtracker — One who, or that which, backtracks.
  • baconburger — a hamburger topped with strips of cooked bacon.
  • bacteraemia — the presence of bacteria in the blood
  • bacteraemic — containing, caused by, or pertaining to bacteraemia
  • bacterially — In reference to bacteria.
  • bactericide — a substance able to destroy bacteria
  • bacteriemia — Bacteremia.
  • bacteriocin — any protein-based toxin given off by bacteria to prevent the growth of related bacteria nearby
  • bacteriosis — any bacterial disease
  • bacteriuria — the presence of bacteria in the urine
  • 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.
  • badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
  • baggage car — A baggage car is a railway carriage, often without windows, which is used to carry luggage, goods, or mail.
  • baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
  • ballcarrier — an attacking player in possession of the ball
  • ballicatter — (in Newfoundland) ice that forms along a shore from waves and spray
  • bancassurer — a bank that sells insurance products
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