11-letter words containing be
- delhi belly — illness resulting from food-borne parasites, esp as suffered by visitors to India
- deliberated — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deliberate.
- deliberator — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- desk jobber — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
- diabetology — (medicine) The study of the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
- dichlobenil — a nonselective preemergence herbicide, C 7 H 3 Cl 2 N, used primarily as a weed and grass killer.
- dingleberry — Slang. a small clot of dung, as clinging to the hindquarters of an animal.
- dinner bell — signal: dinnertime
- dirt dauber — mud dauber.
- disbelieved — Simple past tense and past participle of disbelieve.
- disbeliever — A person who refuses to believe something or who lacks religious faith.
- disbenefits — Plural form of disbenefit.
- disembedded — Simple past tense and past participle of disembed.
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- disentombed — Simple past tense and past participle of disentomb.
- dismembered — Simple past tense and past participle of dismember.
- disobedient — neglecting or refusing to obey; not submitting; refractory.
- disremember — to fail to remember; forget.
- dive bomber — an airplane of the fighter-bomber type that drops its bombs while diving at the enemy.
- diving bell — a chamber with an open bottom in which persons can go underwater without special apparatus, water being excluded from the upper part by compressed air fed in by a hose.
- dragon beam — dragging piece.
- drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
- drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drum-beater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- dumbed down — (jargon) Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
- dung beetle — any of various scarab beetles that feed on or breed in dung.
- east bengal — formerly a part of the Indian province of Bengal; now coextensive with Bangladesh. Compare Bengal (def 1).
- east berlin — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- elizabeth i — 1533–1603, queen of England (1558–1603); daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She established the Church of England (1559) and put an end to Catholic plots, notably by executing Mary Queen of Scots (1587) and defeating the Spanish Armada (1588). Her reign was notable for commercial growth, maritime expansion, and the flourishing of literature, music, and architecture
- elizabethan — of or from period of Elizabeth I
- embellished — Simple past tense and past participle of embellish.
- embellisher — A person who embellishes.
- embellishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embellish.
- emberrorist — a person or organization that reveals potentially embarrassing information, esp as a political weapon
- encumbering — Present participle of encumber.
- enjambement — Alt form enjambment.
- erubescence — the process of growing red or a condition of redness
- exuberantly — In an exuberant manner.
- exuberating — Present participle of exuberate.
- fall behind — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fare-beater — a person who illegally avoids paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.
- farkleberry — a shrub or small tree, Vaccinium arboreum, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., bearing small, waxy, white flowers and black, many-seeded berries.
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- fiberscopes — Plural form of fiberscope.
- field label — a descriptive word or phrase for a field in a record, such as 'surname', 'postcode', etc