11-letter words containing r, e, s, t
- 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
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- 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.
- 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.
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- 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.
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
- bird's nest — the nest of a bird
- bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- bisymmetric — showing symmetry in two planes at right angles to each other
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
- bittercress — one of several perennial or annual plants of the genus Cardamine, that are related to lady's-smock, including hairy bittercress (C. hirsuta), a common weed resembling shepherd's purse, with which it is often confused: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- bittersweet — If you describe an experience as bittersweet, you mean that it has some happy aspects and some sad ones.
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- 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.
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bored stiff — very bored
- boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
- bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
- brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
- bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- breadthways — from side to side
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- breast beam — a horizontal bar, located at the front of a loom, over which the woven material is passed on its way to the cloth roll.
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast