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11-letter words containing s, t, b, r

  • book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
  • boost-start — jump-start.
  • bored stiff — very bored
  • borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
  • boston crab — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler seizes both or one of his opponent's legs, turns him face downwards, and exerts pressure over his back
  • 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.
  • braggartism — the activity of a braggart
  • brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
  • brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • bram stokerBram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • brass tacks — basic realities; hard facts (esp in the phrase get down to brass tacks)
  • bratticings — a series of temporary wooden housings erected on top of a wall, esp a castle wall
  • brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
  • 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
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
  • breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
  • breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
  • breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
  • breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
  • breath test — A breath test is a test carried out by police in which a driver blows into a piece of equipment to show how much alcohol he or she has drunk.
  • breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • brent goose — a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions
  • bristlebird — any of various Australian warblers of the genus Dasyornis.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • bristlelike — resembling a bristle
  • bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
  • bristliness — the quality of being bristly
  • bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
  • british gum — dextrin.
  • british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • brittleness — the quality of being brittle
  • 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.
  • bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
  • brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
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