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11-letter words containing t, c

  • beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
  • becket bend — sheet bend
  • bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
  • beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
  • belize city — a port and the largest city in Belize, on the Caribbean coast: capital until 1973, when that function was transferred inland to Belmopan owing to hurricane risk. Pop: 53 000 (2005 est)
  • bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
  • belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
  • belt-course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
  • bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
  • bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
  • benedict iiSaint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
  • benedict iv — died a.d. 903, pope 900–03.
  • benedict ix — died 1056? pope 1032–44; 1045; 1047–48.
  • benedict vi — died a.d. 974, pope 973–74.
  • benedict xi — (Niccolò Boccasini) 1240–1304, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1303–04.
  • benedict xv — original name Giacomo della Chiesa. 1854–1922, pope (1914–22); noted for his repeated attempts to end World War I and for his organization of war relief
  • benedictine — A Benedictine is a monk or nun who is a member of a Christian religious community that follows the rule of St. Benedict.
  • benediction — A benediction is a kind of Christian prayer.
  • benedictive — relating to a benediction or blessing
  • benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
  • benefaction — the act of doing good, esp by giving a donation to charity
  • benefactive — of or relating to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.
  • benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
  • benefactrix — benefactress.
  • beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
  • beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
  • bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
  • betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
  • bewitchment — the state of being bewitched
  • biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
  • bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
  • 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.
  • bicomponent — a fibre composed of two compounds
  • biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
  • bicorporate — having two bodies
  • bidialectal — fluent in two dialects of a language
  • bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
  • big picture — a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
  • big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
  • binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
  • binucleated — having two nuclei
  • bioactivity — any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.
  • biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
  • bioclimatic — concerning the relations between climate and living organisms
  • bioelectric — of or having to do with electrical energy in living tissues
  • bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
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