11-letter words containing e, n, t, r
- barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
- baronetical — pertaining to baronets
- barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
- barquentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
- barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
- barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
- basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
- basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
- batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
- battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
- battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
- baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
- be dirty on — to be offended by or be hostile towards
- be great on — to be informed about
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- belligerent — A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
- belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
- ben trovato — appropriate and characteristic even if untrue; happily invented or discovered.
- bend dexter — the ordinary bend, extending from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
- bering time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
- bertrandite — a mineral, hydrous beryllium silicate, Be 4 Si 2 O 7 (OH) 2 , colorless or pale yellow, with a vitreous luster, occurring as tabular or prismatic crystals in pegmatites and hydrothermal veins.
- beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
- best friend — a dearest friend
- betrothment — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- better than — superior to
- 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.
- binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
- bioaeration — the oxidative treatment of raw sewage by aeration
- bird's nest — the nest of a bird
- bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- bit pattern — (data) A sequence of bits, in a memory, a communications channel or some other device. The term is used to contrast this with some higher level interpretation of the bits such as an integer or an image. A bit string is similar but suggests an arbitrary, as opposed to predetermined, length.
- bitterender — a person who persists until the bitter end without compromising or yielding; diehard.
- blind tiger — speak-easy
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
- bonaventura — Saint, called the Seraphic Doctor. 1221–74, Italian Franciscan monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher; author of a Life of St Francis and Journey of the Soul to God. Feast day: July 14