11-letter words containing t, a, b, e, r
- be hard hit — To be hard hit by something means to be affected very severely by it.
- 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.
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- bear market — A bear market is a situation on the stock market when people are selling a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will decrease in value and that they will be able to make a profit by buying them again after a short time. Compare bull market.
- bear's-foot — either of two Eurasian hellebore plants, Helleborus foetidus or H. viridis, having leaves shaped like the foot and claws of a bear
- bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
- bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
- bearded tit — a small European bird, Panurus biarmicus, found in reedy places, the male of which has a tuft of black feathers on each side of the face.
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
- beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
- beautyberry — any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.
- beaver tail — a flat oval doughnut served fried and sugared
- bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- belligerati — intellectuals, such as writers, who advocate war or imperialism
- 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.
- ben trovato — appropriate and characteristic even if untrue; happily invented or discovered.
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
- bertrandite — a mineral, hydrous beryllium silicate, Be 4 Si 2 O 7 (OH) 2 , colorless or pale yellow, with a vitreous luster, occurring as tabular or prismatic crystals in pegmatites and hydrothermal veins.
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- better half — one's spouse
- better than — superior to
- bibliolater — someone who reveres the Bible
- 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
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
- bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
- binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
- bioaeration — the oxidative treatment of raw sewage by aeration
- biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption