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11-letter words containing s, a, b, e, r

  • belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
  • belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
  • bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
  • bengal rose — China rose (def 1).
  • bengal-rose — Also called Bengal rose. a rose, Rosa chinensis, of China, having slightly fragrant crimson, pink, or white flowers.
  • bersagliere — a member of a rifle regiment in the Italian Army
  • bestridable — capable of being bestridden
  • beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
  • bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)
  • bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
  • bird's beak — beak (def 9).
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
  • bladdernose — hooded seal
  • blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
  • blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
  • blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
  • blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
  • blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
  • bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • box spanner — a spanner consisting of a steel cylinder with a hexagonal end that fits over a nut: used esp to turn nuts in positions that are recessed or difficult of access
  • bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • brake servo — The brake servo is a device for increasing the pressure of the driver's foot on the brake pedal.
  • bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
  • breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1.   (web)   Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2.   (programming)   Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
  • 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
  • break loose — to free oneself by force
  • break ranks — to fall out of line, esp when under attack
  • 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
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