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11-letter words containing e, t, r

  • beach party — a party held on a beach
  • beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
  • 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
  • bear market — A bear market is a situation on the stock market when people are selling a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will decrease in value and that they will be able to make a profit by buying them again after a short time. Compare bull market.
  • bear's-foot — either of two Eurasian hellebore plants, Helleborus foetidus or H. viridis, having leaves shaped like the foot and claws of a bear
  • bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
  • bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
  • bearded tit — a small European bird, Panurus biarmicus, found in reedy places, the male of which has a tuft of black feathers on each side of the face.
  • beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
  • beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
  • beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
  • 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.
  • beaver tail — a flat oval doughnut served fried and sugared
  • bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
  • beer bottle — a bottle for beer
  • beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
  • behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • bell-topper — a tall silk hat
  • belligerati — intellectuals, such as writers, who advocate war or imperialism
  • belligerent — A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
  • belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
  • belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
  • belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
  • belt-course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • belted tire — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • 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 effort — (networking)   A classification of low priority network traffic, used especially the Internet. Different kinds of traffic have different priorities. Videoconferencing and other types of real-time communication, for example, require a certain minimum guaranteed bandwidth and latency and so must be given a high priority. Electronic mail, on the other hand, can tolerate an arbitrarily long delay and is classified as a "best-effort" service.
  • best friend — a dearest friend
  • best seller — A best seller is a book of which a lot of copies have been sold.
  • bestridable — capable of being bestridden
  • beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
  • beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
  • bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • betrothment — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
  • better half — one's spouse
  • better than — superior to
  • bible story — a story from the Bible
  • bibliolater — someone who reveres the Bible
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