11-letter words containing t, e, b, i
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- bleed white — to deprive slowly of resources
- blemishment — a flaw or blemish
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blind tiger — speak-easy
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- blytheville — a city in NE Arkansas.
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- bon appetit — enjoy your meal
- bontempelli — Massimo. 1878–1960, Italian dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic. His works include the play Nostra Dea (1925) and the novel The Faithful Lover (1953)
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootlegging — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- bored stiff — very bored
- botheration — bother
- bottle bill — a legislative bill that requires the charging of a refundable deposit on certain beverage bottles and cans, to encourage the return of these containers for recycling while at the same time reducing littering.
- bottom line — The bottom line in a decision or situation is the most important factor that you have to consider.
- bottom time — the total time, in minutes, from the beginning of a descent to the beginning of an ascent.
- bouquetiere — an assortment of fresh vegetables
- boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
- bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
- brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- break it up — stop fighting
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
- breunnerite — an iron-containing type of magnesite used in the manufacture of refractory bricks
- bride-to-be — A bride-to-be is a woman who is soon going to be married.
- 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
- bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
- bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- 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