11-letter words containing e, t, c
- black metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extremely nihilistic and satanic lyrics, a repetitive drum beat rapidly alternating betweeen the snare and bass drum (a blast beat), and the ghoulish make-up worn by performers (corpse paint)
- black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
- blackbeetle — oriental cockroach.
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- blastematic — blastemal
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastocoele — the segmentation cavity of a developing ovum or of the blastula
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
- bomb crater — the crater in the ground, pavement, etc, left in the aftermath of an explosion
- book jacket — a removable paper cover used to protect a bound book
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bottle club — a so-called club in which patrons, nominally members, are served liquor from bottles purportedly belonging to them, without regard to liquor control laws
- bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
- bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
- brace table — a table giving the lengths of the hypotenuses of right isosceles triangles of varying sizes: used especially for calculating the lengths of diagonal braces.
- bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
- bracteolate — having bractlets
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
- breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
- breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
- breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
- broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
- brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
- brute force — physical strength, power
- bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
- bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
- burn center — a specialized medical facility that provides comprehensive care for patients with burn injuries.
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
- butenedioic — designating a type of acid
- butt chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade less than 4 inches (10 cm) long.
- butt-cheeks — the flesh of the buttocks
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.