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11-letter words containing er

  • beer engine — a pump used to draw beer from a cask
  • beer garden — a garden attached to a pub, where people can sit and drink beer
  • beiderbecke — Leon Bismarcke, known as Bix. 1903–31, US jazz cornettist, composer, and pianist
  • beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
  • bell beaker — a bell-shaped beaker, especially one associated with the Beaker folk.
  • bell pepper — A bell pepper is a hollow green, red, or yellow vegetable with seeds.
  • bell ringer — A bell ringer is someone who rings church bells or hand bells, especially as a hobby.
  • bell-topper — a tall silk hat
  • bellerophon — a hero of Corinth who performed many deeds with the help of the winged horse Pegasus, notably the killing of the monster Chimera
  • bellfounder — a foundry worker who casts bells
  • belligerati — intellectuals, such as writers, who advocate war or imperialism
  • belligerent — A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
  • belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
  • benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
  • benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
  • bend dexter — the ordinary bend, extending from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
  • benderboard — pliable, lightweight board used for making concrete patios, in gardens, and as woven fencing: often 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) wide and 1/4 to 1/2 inch (0.6 to 1.2 cm) thick and made from California redwood.
  • bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
  • bergenfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
  • bering time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
  • berkeley fp — (language)   A version of Backus's FP distributed with 4.2BSD Unix.
  • berkeleyism — any philosophical system or doctrine derived from the views of Bishop Berkeley.
  • berlin wall — a wall dividing the east and west sectors of Berlin, built in 1961 by the East German authorities to stop the flow of refugees from east to west; demolition of the wall began in 1989
  • berlin wool — a fine wool yarn used for tapestry work, etc
  • bermuda bag — an oval-shaped handbag with wooden handles and changeable decorative cloth covers.
  • bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
  • berners-lee — Sir Tim. born 1955, British computer scientist who in 1990 created the World Wide Web
  • berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
  • bersagliere — a member of a rifle regiment in the Italian Army
  • 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.
  • beryl green — a light bluish green.
  • berylliosis — a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium
  • beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
  • berzerkeley — (humour)   /b*r-zer'klee/ (From "berserk", via the name of a now-deceased record label) A humorous distortion of "Berkeley" used especially to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix hackers. See software bloat, Missed'em-five, Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s.
  • best seller — A best seller is a book of which a lot of copies have been sold.
  • better half — one's spouse
  • better than — superior to
  • 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.
  • bible paper — a thin tough opaque paper used for Bibles, prayer books, and reference books
  • bibliolater — someone who reveres the Bible
  • biedermeier — of or relating to a decorative and furnishing style in mid-19th-century Germany, characterized by solidity and conventionality
  • big brother — People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do.
  • big-leaguer — Sports. a player in a major league.
  • bilaterally — pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: a bilateral agreement; bilateral sponsorship.
  • bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
  • bill broker — a person whose business is the purchase and sale of bills of exchange
  • bing cherry — a dark-red variety of sweet cherry
  • bioaeration — the oxidative treatment of raw sewage by aeration
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