12-letter words containing et
- basket catch — a catch made with open glove with the palm up and the wrist kept close to and in front of the body.
- basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
- basket maker — a member of an early Native American people of the southwestern US, preceding the Pueblo people, known for skill in basket-making
- basket weave — a weave of fabrics resembling the weave used in basket making
- basketballer — (informal) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.
- basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
- basketweaver — a person who advocates simple, natural, and unsophisticated living
- basset hound — A basset hound is a dog with short strong legs, a long body, and long ears. It is kept as a pet or used for hunting.
- basset table — a card table of the early 18th century in England.
- bathetically — in a bathetic fashion
- bayonet bulb — an electric light bulb which is inserted into the socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket
- be let loose — If you say that someone has been let loose in a place or situation, you mean that they have been given complete freedom to do what they like in that place or situation, and you suggest that this may be risky.
- beetle drive — a social occasion at which a progressive series of games of beetle is played
- beetleheaded — like a beetlehead; stupid
- beit knesset — a synagogue: often used in the names of congregations
- besom pocket — an interior pocket with edging or stitching around the opening.
- beta blocker — A beta blocker is a drug which is used to treat people who have high blood pressure or heart problems.
- beta emitter — a radioactive element, either natural or artificial, which changes into another element by emitting a beta particle
- beta orionis — Rigel
- beta testing — (programming) Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
- beta version — beta testing
- beta-blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the beta receptors: used primarily to reduce the heart rate or force in the prevention, management, or treatment of angina, hypertension, or arrythmias.
- betacarotene — the most important form of the plant pigment carotene, which occurs in milk, vegetables, and other foods and, when eaten by man and animals, is converted in the body to vitamin A
- betanaphthol — a colorless, crystalline isomer of naphthol, C10H8O, used as an antiseptic and parasiticide
- betel pepper — a tropical Asiatic climbing plant (Piper betle) of the pepper family
- beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
- beth shammai — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.
- betting news — the news of the latest odds on winners of matches, races and competitions
- betting shop — A betting shop is a place where people can go to bet on something such as a horse race.
- betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
- between-deck — 'tween deck.
- betweenbrain — the posterior part of the forebrain
- betweentimes — between other activities; during intervals
- betws-y-coed — a village in N Wales, in Conwy county borough, on the River Conwy: noted for its scenery. Pop: 534 (2001)
- bibb lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce, formed in loose heads of very crisp, dark-green leaves
- biker jacket — a short, close-fitting leather jacket with zips and studs, often worn by motorcyclists
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
- biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
- biosynthetic — of, relating to, or characterized by biosynthesis, the formation of chemical compounds by a living organism, or a laboratory process modeled after these reactions in living organisms.
- biotelemetry — the monitoring of biological functions in humans or animals by means of a miniature transmitter that sends data to a distant point to be read by electronic instruments
- birket karun — a lake in N Egypt. 25 miles (40 km) long; about 5 miles (8 km) wide; 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km).
- black beetle — another name for the oriental cockroach
- black letter — a kind of heavy-faced, ornamental printing type
- black market — If something is bought or sold on the black market, it is bought or sold illegally.
- black velvet — a mixture of stout and champagne in equal proportions
- black-market — to black-marketeer.
- blanket bath — an all-over wash given to a person confined to bed
- blanket roll — a blanket or sleeping bag rolled into a cylindrical pack for easy carrying and outdoor use by hikers, soldiers, cowboys, etc., often with cooking utensils, food, and personal articles carried inside.
- blanket toss — a game in which a person is repeatedly tossed into the air and caught on an open blanket by a group of people who hold the blanket at its edges and stretch and relax it for each toss and catch.