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11-letter words starting with b

  • bashibazouk — (in the 19th century) one of a group of irregular Turkish soldiers notorious for their brutality
  • basic cobol — (language)   A subset of COBOL from COBOL-60 standards.
  • basic dress — a simple, usually dark dress that may be worn with various accessories or in combination with other garments so that it is suitable for different occasions.
  • basic steel — steel produced by the basic process.
  • basicranial — of or relating to the base of the skull
  • basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • basil thyme — a plant, Acinos thymoides, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves and purplish flowers.
  • basil-thyme — a European plant, Acinos arvensis, having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers: family Lamiaceae
  • basin range — a mountain range of the type found in the Great Basin region of the western U.S., typically long and narrow and characterized by faulted, tilted blocks of strata.
  • basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
  • basipetally — in the manner of a basipetal
  • basis point — In finance, a basis point is one hundredth of a per cent (.01%).
  • baskerville — a style of type
  • basket case — If someone describes a country or organization as a basket case, they mean that its economy or finances are in a seriously bad state.
  • basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
  • basket fish — basket star.
  • basket hilt — a hilt fitted to a broadsword, with a generally padded basket-shaped guard to protect the hand
  • basket star — any echinoderm of the class Ophiuroidea, especially of the genus Gorgonocephalus, having long, slender, branching arms.
  • basket-star — any of several echinoderms of the genus Gorgonocephalus, in which long slender arms radiate from a central disc: order Ophiuroidea (brittle-stars)
  • basketballs — Plural form of basketball.
  • basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.
  • basketweave — a weave of two or more yarns together, resembling that of a basket, esp in wool or linen fabric
  • bass fiddle — double bass.
  • bass guitar — a guitar that has the same pitch and tuning as a double bass, usually electrically amplified
  • bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
  • bass reflex — a loudspeaker equipped with a baffle having openings designed to improve the reproduction of low-frequency sounds.
  • bass strait — a channel between mainland Australia and Tasmania, linking the Indian Ocean and the Tasman Sea
  • basse-terre — a mountainous island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands, comprising part of Guadeloupe. Area: 848 sq km (327 sq miles)
  • basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
  • bastard cut — (of a file) having medium teeth; intermediate between a coarse cut and a fine cut
  • bastard pop — a type of popular music in which two records, usually from different genres or eras, are blended together into a whole, often using the vocal performance from one and the instrumental from the other
  • bastard son — an illegitimate son
  • bastard-saw — plain-saw.
  • bastardised — Simple past tense and past participle of bastardise.
  • bastardized — If you refer to something as a bastardized form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality.
  • bastardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize.
  • bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
  • bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
  • bastnaesite — a rare yellow to reddish-brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of fluorine and several lanthanide metals. It occurs in association with zinc and is a source of the lanthanides. Formula: LaFCO3
  • bat mitzvah — (of a Jewish girl) having attained religious majority at the age of twelve
  • batch plant — a manufacturing plant where concrete is mixed before being transported to a construction site ready to be poured.
  • bateau neck — boat neck.
  • 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.
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