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

  • 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)
  • breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
  • breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
  • breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • 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
  • 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.
  • broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
  • brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
  • butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
  • butter tart — a kind of tart made with butter, brown sugar, and raisins
  • butterbread — bread spread with butter.
  • buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
  • butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • cabaret tax — a tax levied on entertainment, dancing, floor shows, etc., at places where liquor is served, as at cabarets and nightclubs.
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
  • cambric tea — a hot drink of milk, sugar, and water or, often, weak tea
  • camera tube — the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal
  • cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
  • carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
  • carbonatite — a rare intrusive or extrusive igneous rock, mostly found in Africa, that contains a high proportion of carbonate minerals
  • carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
  • carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
  • carburetant — a substance, as gasoline or benzene, added to air or gas to carburet it
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