11-letter words containing be
- betting tax — a tax on gambling
- 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
- betweenness — the condition of being between
- betweentime — the time between events; interval
- beurre noir — a sauce of darkly browned butter, sometimes flavored with herbs, vinegar, etc.
- bevel joint — a miter joint, especially one in which two pieces meet at other than a right angle.
- bevel wheel — a toothed wheel, set at an oblique angle to the axis
- bewhiskered — having whiskers on the cheeks
- bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
- bewitchment — the state of being bewitched
- bibliophobe — a person who hates, fears, or distrusts books.
- bird's beak — beak (def 9).
- blackbeetle — oriental cockroach.
- blood libel — the malicious accusation that Jews used the blood of non-Jews in religious rituals
- blubberhead — a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
- bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
- boysenberry — a type of bramble: a hybrid of the loganberry and various blackberries and raspberries
- 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.
- bride-to-be — A bride-to-be is a woman who is soon going to be married.
- browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- brown betty — a baked apple pudding made with butter, spices, sugar, and bread crumbs
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bumbleberry — a mixture of berries used in pie fillings and in preserves
- burnt umber — a brown pigment obtained by heating umber
- busy beaver — (theory) (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
- but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
- 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.
- cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- camera tube — the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal
- camp robber — Canada jay
- campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
- campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- casselberry — a city in central Florida.
- castor bean — the seed of this plant
- casus belli — an event or act used to justify a war
- celebes sea — the part of the Pacific Ocean between Sulawesi, Borneo, and Mindanao
- celtiberian — a member of a Celtic people (Celtiberi) who inhabited the Iberian peninsula during classical times
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
- cerebellums — Plural form of cerebellum.
- chamber mug — a chamber pot.
- chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse
- chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
- chambermaid — A chambermaid is a woman who cleans and tidies the bedrooms in a hotel.
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.