11-letter words containing th
- basil-thyme — a European plant, Acinos arvensis, having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers: family Lamiaceae
- bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
- bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- bath tissue — toilet paper.
- bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
- bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
- batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- bathophobia — the fear of depths of any kind, whether a fear of deep water or of falling from a great height
- bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
- bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
- bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
- be all that — to be exceptionally good, talented, or attractive
- be death on — to deal with in a devastating manner
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- bellmouthed — having a flaring mouth or opening like that of a bell
- bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
- benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- beth hillel — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish spiritual leader Hillel and characterized by its systematic use of interpretive principles and a certain flexibility in interpreting the oral and written law.
- bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- betrothment — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- better than — superior to
- bibliotheca — a library or collection of books
- 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.
- bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
- birth canal — the passageway down which the fetus passes during birth
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- birthweight — the weight of an infant at birth.
- black death — a deadly disease, probably bubonic plague, which devastated Europe and Asia in the 14th cent.
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blytheville — a city in NE Arkansas.
- body rhythm — biorhythm.
- bohr theory — a theory of atomic structure that explains the spectrum of hydrogen atoms. It assumes that the electron orbiting around the nucleus can exist only in certain energy states, a jump from one state to another being accompanied by the emission or absorption of a quantum of radiation
- botheration — bother
- bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
- brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- breadthways — from side to side
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breath test — A breath test is a test carried out by police in which a driver blows into a piece of equipment to show how much alcohol he or she has drunk.
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
- breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
- breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.