10-letter words containing e, t
- bez antler — bay antler
- biannulate — having two bands, esp of colour
- bible belt — Parts of the southern United States are referred to as the Bible Belt because Protestants with strong beliefs have a lot of influence there.
- bible oath — an oath sworn with one's hand on the Christian Bible
- biblioteca — a library.
- bichromate — dichromate
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- big bertha — any of three large German guns of World War I used to bombard Paris
- big hitter — A big hitter is a sportsperson such as a golfer or tennis player who hits the ball with a lot of force.
- big sister — an elder sister.
- big ticket — costing a great deal; expensive: fur coats and other big-ticket items.
- big-footed — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- big-ticket — If you describe something as a big-ticket item, you mean that it costs a lot of money.
- bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
- bigmouthed — having a very large mouth.
- bijouterie — jewellery esteemed for the delicacy of the work rather than the value of the materials
- bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
- biliterate — able to read and write in two languages.
- bill gates — (person) William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. He was a computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes, February 3, 1976).
- billethead — a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- bimetallic — consisting of two metals
- binet test — a test comprising questions and tasks, used to determine the mental age of subjects, usually children
- binoxalate — an acid containing the group HC 2 O 4 –, as ammonium binoxalate, C 2 H 5 NO 4 ⋅H 2 O.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- biocellate — (of animals and plants) marked with two eyelike spots or ocelli
- biocentric — centered in life; having life as its principal fact.
- biochemist — A biochemist is a scientist or student who studies biochemistry.
- bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
- biogenetic — genetic engineering.
- biometrics — that branch of biology which deals with its data statistically and by mathematical analysis
- biomimetic — (of a human-made product) imitating nature or a natural process
- bioreactor — a machine for growing organisms
- bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- biparental — from two parents
- biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- bipetalous — having two petals
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- biquintile — the aspect of planets when they are at an angle of 144° to one another
- bird table — A bird table is a small wooden platform on a pole which some people put in their garden in order to put food for the birds on it.
- birostrate — having two beaks or beak-like projections
- birth name — the surname given a person at birth.
- birth rate — The birth rate in a place is the number of babies born there for every 1000 people during a particular period of time.
- birth-date — the date of a person’s birth, usually expressed as a specific day, month, and year.