11-letter words containing e, r, y, t
- b2 security — Orange Book
- b3 security — Orange Book
- baby sister — a younger sister
- baby-mother — a young mother who has been abandoned by the baby's father just before or after the birth
- baby-sitter — a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out
- babysitters — Plural form of babysitter.
- bacterially — In reference to bacteria.
- band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
- 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.
- bárány test — a test which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear, devised by Robert Bárány (1876–1936)
- barter away — to give or trade for too small a return
- barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
- battery egg — an egg from a battery hen
- battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
- battery jar — a rather large cylindrical container of heavy glass with an open top, used in laboratories.
- battery set — a set of batteries required for a particular purpose
- be dirty on — to be offended by or be hostile towards
- beach party — a party held on a beach
- bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
- beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
- beautyberry — any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
- beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
- binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
- biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
- bisymmetric — showing symmetry in two planes at right angles to each other
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blue myrtle — blueblossom.
- bohr theory — a theory of atomic structure that explains the spectrum of hydrogen atoms. It assumes that the electron orbiting around the nucleus can exist only in certain energy states, a jump from one state to another being accompanied by the emission or absorption of a quantum of radiation
- bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
- boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- breadthways — from side to side
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
- bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
- brown betty — a baked apple pudding made with butter, spices, sugar, and bread crumbs
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter