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11-letter words containing e, b, a

  • ball tearer — something exceptional in its class, for good or bad qualities
  • ball-buster — an arduous, often unpleasant task.
  • ball-flower — a decoration in a molding that looks like a ball held in the petals of a flower
  • ballbearing — Alternative form of ball bearing.
  • ballbreaker — a person, esp a woman, whose character and behaviour may be regarded as threatening a man's sense of power
  • ballcarrier — an attacking player in possession of the ball
  • ballesteros — Severiano (sevɛˈrjano). 1957–2011, Spanish professional golfer: won the British Open Championship (1979; 1984; 1988) and the US Masters (1980; 1983)
  • ballet flat — a shoe with a very flat heel or no heel, resembling a ballet slipper worn by dancers.
  • ballet shoe — a flexible, lightweight shoe designed for ballet dancing; typically made of leather or silk, and often fastened with ribbons
  • balletomane — a person enthusiastic about the ballet
  • ballhandler — a player particularly skilled at passing and dribbling
  • ballicatter — (in Newfoundland) ice that forms along a shore from waves and spray
  • ballplayers — Plural form of ballplayer.
  • balsam pear — an Old World tropical vine, Momordica charantia, of the gourd family, having yellow flowers and orange-yellow fruit.
  • balustraded — Having balustrades.
  • balustrades — Plural form of balustrade.
  • bamboo ware — a cane-colored Wedgwood stoneware of c1770 imitating bamboo.
  • banana belt — a region with a warm climate, esp one in Canada
  • banana peel — A banana peel is the same as a banana skin.
  • banana seat — a narrow, tapered, elongated bicycle seat that curves upward at the rear
  • bancassurer — a bank that sells insurance products
  • band leader — the leader of a group of musicians, esp those playing popular music
  • band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
  • banded pack — two products which are held together with a band and sold together at a discounted price
  • bandeirante — a 16th–18th-century Portugese explorer in South America motivated by profit, known for hunting down natives for slaves as well as for locating mines of precious stones and metals
  • banderillas — Plural form of banderilla.
  • bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
  • bandleaders — Plural form of bandleader.
  • bandmasters — Plural form of bandmaster.
  • bandylegged — having bandy legs; bowlegged
  • baneberries — Plural form of baneberry.
  • banefulness — The state or quality of being baneful.
  • bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
  • banistering — Present participle of banister.
  • banjermasin — a seaport on the S coast of Borneo, in Indonesia.
  • bank robber — someone who steals from a bank, often using violence
  • bannerstone — a North American prehistoric stone implement in the form of a double-edged ax with a notch or hole, possibly for attaching a handle.
  • banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
  • banteringly — in a bantering fashion
  • banyan-tree — Also called banyan tree. an East Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, of the mulberry family, having branches that send out adventitious roots to the ground and sometimes cause the tree to spread over a wide area.
  • baptistries — Plural form of baptistry.
  • bar cochebaSimon, died a.d. 135, Hebrew leader of insurrection against the Romans a.d. 132–135.
  • bárány test — a test which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear, devised by Robert Bárány (1876–1936)
  • barbaresque — (particularly of art) stylistically barbaric
  • barbarities — Plural form of barbarity.
  • barbary ape — a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates
  • barbastelle — an insectivorous forest bat, Barbastella barbastellus, widely distributed across Eurasia, having a wrinkled face and prominent ears: roosts in trees or caves
  • barbed tape — wire with razor-sharp edges or projections, placed in coils as a barrier along the tops of fences or walls, as at a prison.
  • barbed wire — Barbed wire is strong wire with sharp points sticking out of it, and is used to make fences.
  • barber pole — a pole with spiral stripes of red and white, used as a symbol of the barber's trade
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