11-letter words containing e, b, r
- 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
- badger game — the blackmailing of a man by maneuvering him into a compromising situation with a woman
- baggage car — A baggage car is a railway carriage, often without windows, which is used to carry luggage, goods, or mail.
- baggy green — the Australian Test cricket cap
- bake-wares' — heat-resistant dishes, as of glass or pottery, in which food may be baked; ovenware.
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- 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
- 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)
- 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.
- 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
- 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.