11-letter words containing r, t, c
- back matter — the parts of a book, such as the index and appendices, that follow the main text
- back stairs — stairs at the back of a house, as for use by servants.
- back street — A back street in a town or city is a small, narrow street with very little traffic.
- back-street — taking place in secrecy and often illegally: back-street political maneuvering; back-street drug dealing.
- backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
- backdraught — a reverse movement of air, gas, or liquid
- backscatter — the scattering of particles or radiation, such as sound waves, X-rays, or alpha-particles, by the atoms of the medium through which they pass, in the backward direction
- backscratch — a favour done for someone in return for another
- backseaters — Plural form of backseater.
- backstabber — someone who attacks another deceitfully, behind his or her back
- backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- backstreets — Plural form of backstreet.
- backstretch — the part of a racetrack farthest from the grandstand and opposite and parallel to the homestretch
- backstroker — a person who swims the backstroke, especially a member of a competitive swimming team who specializes in the backstroke.
- backstrokes — Plural form of backstroke.
- backtracked — Simple past tense and past participle of backtrack.
- backtracker — One who, or that which, backtracks.
- bacteraemia — the presence of bacteria in the blood
- bacteraemic — containing, caused by, or pertaining to bacteraemia
- bacterially — In reference to bacteria.
- bactericide — a substance able to destroy bacteria
- bacteriemia — Bacteremia.
- bacteriocin — any protein-based toxin given off by bacteria to prevent the growth of related bacteria nearby
- bacteriosis — any bacterial disease
- bacteriuria — the presence of bacteria in the urine
- bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
- ballicatter — (in Newfoundland) ice that forms along a shore from waves and spray
- baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
- baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
- baronetical — pertaining to baronets
- barracootas — Plural form of barracoota.
- barracoutas — Plural form of barracouta.
- barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
- bastard cut — (of a file) having medium teeth; intermediate between a coarse cut and a fine cut
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- beach aster — a seaside plant, Erigeron glaucus, of the temperate western coast of North America, having solitary, violet- or lilac-colored flowers.
- beach drift — the drifting of sediments, especially marine sediments, in patterns parallel to the contours of a beach, due to the action of waves and currents.
- beach party — a party held on a beach
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
- 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.
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- bicarbonate — a salt of carbonic acid containing the ion HCO3–; an acid carbonate
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- bicorporate — having two bodies