11-letter words containing e, b, a
- quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- quatre bras — a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.
- quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
- quite a bit — a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
- rabattement — the act of rabatting
- rabbit ears — an indoor television antenna consisting of two telescoping, swivel-based aerials.
- rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
- rabelaisian — of, relating to, or suggesting François Rabelais, whose work is characterized by broad, coarse humor and keen satire.
- racquetball — a game similar to handball, played on a four-walled court but with a short-handled, strung racket and a larger, somewhat softer ball.
- rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- range table — one of a number of identical small tables that can be used together to form a single table.
- raspberries — the fruit of any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family, consisting of small and juicy red, black, or pale yellow drupelets forming a detachable cap about a convex receptacle.
- raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
- rate rebate — (formerly) a reduction in the amount of rates that a person had to pay
- rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
- rattlebrain — a giddy, empty-headed, talkative person.
- ray's bream — a species of bream Brama brama, common in southern European waters
- razor blade — a sharp-edged metal blade for use in a razor.
- razzberries — raspberry (def 4).
- readability — Also, readableness. the state or quality of being readable.
- real number — a rational number or the limit of a sequence of rational numbers, as opposed to a complex number.
- rear bumper — the bar at the back of a vehicle which protects it if it bumps into something
- reattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- rebarbative — causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
- rebroadcast — to broadcast again from the same station.
- rebuildable — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- recalibrate — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- recarburize — to add carbon to (steel), as in an open-hearth furnace, as by adding pig iron.
- receivables — the part of the assets of a business represented by accounts due for payment
- reclaimable — to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
- reclaimably — in a reclaimable manner
- recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
- recoverable — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- recreatable — to create anew.
- recruitable — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- rectifiable — able to be rectified.
- recuperable — capable of recuperation
- recyclables — objects that are able to be processed and used again
- red cabbage — a variety of the edible cabbage, Brassica oleracea, having deep reddish-purple leaves.
- red chamber — the Canadian Senate chamber.
- redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
- redressable — the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses.
- reestablish — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- refuellable — capable of being refuelled
- regenerable — to effect a complete moral reform in.
- registrable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- regrettable — causing or deserving regret; unfortunate; deplorable.
- regrettably — causing or deserving regret; unfortunate; deplorable.