11-letter words containing as
- beach grass — any of a genus (Ammophila) of deeply rooted, tough, perennial grasses that grow on sandy beaches and are often planted to combat beach erosion
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- beilan pass — a mountain pass in SE Turkey near Syria. 2395 feet (730 meters).
- bible class — a class, typically one meeting weekly, for Bible study
- biblioclasm — a person who mutilates or destroys books.
- biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
- blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- blastematic — blastemal
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastocoele — the segmentation cavity of a developing ovum or of the blastula
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
- brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
- brass tacks — basic realities; hard facts (esp in the phrase get down to brass tacks)
- brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
- breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
- breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- breast beam — a horizontal bar, located at the front of a loom, over which the woven material is passed on its way to the cloth roll.
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
- breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
- breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
- breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- broad glass — cylinder glass.
- broad-based — comprehensive and inclusive
- 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.
- brown toast — toasted wholemeal bread
- brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
- buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- bullmastiff — a breed of dog
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor