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

  • baptistries — Plural form of baptistry.
  • bárány test — a test which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear, devised by Robert Bárány (1876–1936)
  • barbarities — Plural form of barbarity.
  • barbastelle — an insectivorous forest bat, Barbastella barbastellus, widely distributed across Eurasia, having a wrinkled face and prominent ears: roosts in trees or caves
  • barbed tape — wire with razor-sharp edges or projections, placed in coils as a barrier along the tops of fences or walls, as at a prison.
  • barbiturate — A barbiturate is a drug which people take to make them calm or to help them to sleep.
  • barents sea — a part of the Arctic Ocean, bounded by Norway, Russia, and the islands of Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen, and Franz Josef Land
  • baresthesia — the sense or perception of pressure.
  • bargemaster — the owner of a barge
  • bark beetle — any small beetle of the family Scolytidae, which bore tunnels in the bark and wood of trees, causing great damage. They are closely related to the weevils
  • barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
  • barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
  • baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
  • baronetical — pertaining to baronets
  • barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
  • barquentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
  • barrel bolt — a rod-shaped bolt for fastening a door or the like, attached to one side of the door at the edge and sliding into a socket on the frame of the opening.
  • barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
  • barter away — to give or trade for too small a return
  • bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
  • bartolommeo — Fra. original name Baccio della Porta. 1472–1517, Italian painter of the Florentine school, noted for his austere religious works
  • barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
  • basehearted — having a low, mean, or contemptible nature or character; meanspirited.
  • basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
  • basket star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, especially of the genus Gorgonocephalus, having long, slender, branching arms.
  • basket-star — any of several echinoderms of the genus Gorgonocephalus, in which long slender arms radiate from a central disc: order Ophiuroidea (brittle-stars)
  • basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.
  • basse-terre — a mountainous island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands, comprising part of Guadeloupe. Area: 848 sq km (327 sq miles)
  • basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
  • bastardised — Simple past tense and past participle of bastardise.
  • bastardized — If you refer to something as a bastardized form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality.
  • bastardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize.
  • bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
  • bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
  • bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
  • bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
  • bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
  • baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
  • batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
  • batter pile — a pile driven at an angle to the vertical.
  • battery egg — an egg from a battery hen
  • battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
  • battery jar — a rather large cylindrical container of heavy glass with an open top, used in laboratories.
  • battery set — a set of batteries required for a particular purpose
  • battle star — a small star worn on a campaign ribbon, awarded to a member of the armed forces for participation in a particular battle or campaign
  • battledores — Plural form of battledore.
  • battledress — the ordinary uniform of a soldier, consisting of tunic and trousers
  • battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
  • baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
  • be great on — to be informed about
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