8-letter words containing te
- bankster — a banker or investor whose financial practices have been exposed as illegal
- banstead — a town in S England, in NE Surrey. Pop: 19 332 (2001)
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- bantered — Simple past tense and past participle of banter.
- banterer — One who banters.
- barbette — (formerly) an earthen platform inside a parapet, from which heavy guns could fire over the top
- barrette — A barrette is a small metal or plastic device that a woman uses to hold her hair in position.
- bartered — to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.
- barterer — One who barters: one who trades goods for other goods without involving money.
- basaltes — unglazed black stoneware
- basanite — a black basaltic rock containing plagioclase, augite, olivine, and nepheline, leucite, or analcite, formerly used as a touchstone
- basseted — an outcrop, as of the edges of strata.
- bateless — not abating or not able to be abated
- bateleur — a common African eagle, Terathopius ecaudatus, having a very short tail.
- batement — reduction; abatement
- batteler — (at Oxford University) a student who charges food and other costs to a battel account
- battened — Simple past tense and past participle of batten.
- battener — someone who flourishes, grows fat, is strengthened
- battered — Something that is battered is old and in poor condition because it has been used a lot.
- batteree — (nonstandard) One who is battered (beaten by spouse etc.).
- batterer — a person who batters someone
- batterie — a movement in ballet involving the legs beating together
- baziotes — William, 1912–63, U.S. painter.
- bedotted — covered with dots; speckled
- bedplate — a heavy metal platform or frame to which an engine or machine is attached
- bedstead — A bedstead is the metal or wooden frame of an old-fashioned bed.
- beef tea — a drink made by boiling pieces of lean beef: often given to invalids to stimulate the appetite
- begetter — The begetter of something has caused this thing to come into existence.
- begotten — Begotten is the past participle of beget.
- behatted — wearing a hat
- bellcote — a small roofed structure for bells
- belleter — a person who makes bells
- belmonte — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), 1893–1962, Spanish matador.
- benzoate — any salt or ester of benzoic acid, containing the group C6H5COO– or the ion C6H5COO–
- bepester — to pester persistently
- besotted — If you are besotted with someone or something, you like them so much that you seem foolish or silly.
- besuited — wearing a suit
- betatter — to make ragged
- betelnut — the seed of the betel palm, chewed with betel leaves and lime by people in S and SE Asia as a digestive stimulant and narcotic
- bettered — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- big tent — a political approach in which a party claims to be open to a wide spectrum of constituents and groups
- big-note — to boast about (oneself)
- big-tent — a political party's or coalition's policy or doctrine of allowing and encouraging a wide range of beliefs, opinions, and views among its members.
- bijugate — (of compound leaves) having two pairs of leaflets
- billeted — lodging for a soldier, student, etc., as in a private home or nonmilitary public building.
- bilobate — divided into or having two lobes
- bimbette — a woman who is considered sexually attractive but unintelligent
- bimester — a period of two months
- biometer — a device for measuring the production of carbon dioxide in functioning tissue