11-letter words containing t, e, n, a, i
- bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
- bastnaesite — a rare yellow to reddish-brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of fluorine and several lanthanide metals. It occurs in association with zinc and is a source of the lanthanides. Formula: LaFCO3
- batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
- battle line — the line along which troops are positioned for battle
- bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
- bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
- 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.
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- benjaminite — a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- 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.
- betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
- betting tax — a tax on gambling
- bi-bivalent — separating into two bivalent ions
- 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.
- binary tree — (btree) A tree in which each node has at most two successors or child nodes. In Haskell this could be represented as
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- bioaeration — the oxidative treatment of raw sewage by aeration
- bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bit pattern — (data) A sequence of bits, in a memory, a communications channel or some other device. The term is used to contrast this with some higher level interpretation of the bits such as an integer or an image. A bit string is similar but suggests an arbitrary, as opposed to predetermined, length.
- blanketlike — resembling a blanket
- bon appetit — enjoy your meal
- botheration — bother
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- caffeinated — with no natural caffeine removed
- calc-sinter — travertine