11-letter words containing l, e, t, c
- at a glance — If you see something at a glance, you see or recognize it immediately, and without having to think or look carefully.
- atactostele — (botany) A type of eustele, found in monocots, in which the vascular tissue in the stem exists as scattered bundles.
- atelectasis — failure of the lungs to expand fully at birth
- atelectatic — relating to or characterized by atelectasis
- atheistical — pertaining to or characteristic of atheists or atheism; containing, suggesting, or disseminating atheism: atheistic literature; atheistic people.
- athleticism — Athleticism is someone's fitness and ability to perform well at sports or other physical activities.
- atlas cedar — a cedar tree native to the Atlas Mountains
- atomic pile — nuclear reactor
- attractable — Able to be attracted.
- auriculated — (biology, rare) Having ears or appendages like ears; eared.
- auscultated — Simple past tense and past participle of auscultate.
- auscultates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of auscultate.
- authentical — authentic.
- authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- backlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlight.
- bacterially — In reference to bacteria.
- balance out — If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
- ballicatter — (in Newfoundland) ice that forms along a shore from waves and spray
- baronetical — pertaining to baronets
- basic steel — steel produced by the basic process.
- battlepiece — a painting, relief, mosaic, etc, depicting a battle, usually commemorating an actual event
- battlespace — the area of air, sea, and land that is directly involved in war, often taken to include any technological, environmental, infrastructural, or temporal factors which may be relevant to the success of a mission
- beach towel — a large towel used on the beach
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
- belize city — a port and the largest city in Belize, on the Caribbean coast: capital until 1973, when that function was transferred inland to Belmopan owing to hurricane risk. Pop: 53 000 (2005 est)
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
- 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.
- bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
- bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
- betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
- bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
- bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- bioelectric — of or having to do with electrical energy in living tissues
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
- 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