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

  • back-street — taking place in secrecy and often illegally: back-street political maneuvering; back-street drug dealing.
  • backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
  • backcrosses — Plural form of backcross.
  • backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
  • backmarkers — Plural form of backmarker.
  • backpackers — Plural form of backpacker.
  • 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
  • backseaters — Plural form of backseater.
  • backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
  • 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.
  • backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
  • bacteriosis — any bacterial disease
  • 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.
  • badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
  • baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
  • bancassurer — a bank that sells insurance products
  • barley sack — a burlap bag.
  • baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
  • basic dress — a simple, usually dark dress that may be worn with various accessories or in combination with other garments so that it is suitable for different occasions.
  • beach aster — a seaside plant, Erigeron glaucus, of the temperate western coast of North America, having solitary, violet- or lilac-colored flowers.
  • beach grass — any of a genus (Ammophila) of deeply rooted, tough, perennial grasses that grow on sandy beaches and are often planted to combat beach erosion
  • beach scarp — a steep slope or miniature cliff, formed by wave action, fronting the berm on a beach.
  • beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
  • beam search — (algorithm)   An optimisation of the best first search graph search algorithm where only a predetermined number of paths are kept as candidates. The number of paths is the "width of the beam". If more paths than this are generated, the worst paths are discarded. This reduces the space requirements of best first search.
  • bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
  • beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
  • bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
  • 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.
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • 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
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
  • broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
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