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11-letter words starting with b

  • 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
  • batological — relating to the study of brambles
  • baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
  • batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
  • batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
  • batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
  • batter pile — a pile driven at an angle to the vertical.
  • battery egg — an egg from a battery hen
  • battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
  • battery jar — a rather large cylindrical container of heavy glass with an open top, used in laboratories.
  • battery set — a set of batteries required for a particular purpose
  • batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
  • battle line — the line along which troops are positioned for battle
  • battle plan — the strategy to be used in a military engagement.
  • battle star — a small star worn on a campaign ribbon, awarded to a member of the armed forces for participation in a particular battle or campaign
  • battle zone — an area where a battle or battles are being fought
  • battledores — Plural form of battledore.
  • battledress — the ordinary uniform of a soldier, consisting of tunic and trousers
  • battlefield — A battlefield is a place where a battle is fought.
  • battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
  • battlements — The battlements of a castle or fortress consist of a wall built round the top, with gaps through which guns or arrows can be fired.
  • battlepiece — a painting, relief, mosaic, etc, depicting a battle, usually commemorating an actual event
  • battleplane — an airplane designed for combat; warplane.
  • battleships — Plural form of battleship.
  • battlespace — the area of air, sea, and land that is directly involved in war, often taken to include any technological, environmental, infrastructural, or temporal factors which may be relevant to the success of a mission
  • battlewagon — a battleship
  • battologist — wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.
  • battologize — to repeat (a word, phrase, mannerism, etc.) excessively.
  • baudot code — (communications)   (For etymology, see baud) A character set predating EBCDIC and used originally and primarily on paper tape. Use of Baudot reportedly survives in TDDs and some HAM radio applications. In Baudot, characters are expressed using five bits. Baudot uses two code sub-sets, the "letter set" (LTRS), and the "figure set" (FIGS). The FIGS character (11011) signals that the following code is to be interpreted as being in the FIGS set, until this is reset by the LTRS (11111) character. binary hex LTRS FIGS -------------------------- 00011 03 A - 11001 19 B ? 01110 0E C : 01001 09 D $ 00001 01 E 3 01101 0D F ! 11010 1A G & 10100 14 H # 00110 06 I 8 01011 0B J BELL 01111 0F K ( 10010 12 L ) 11100 1C M . 01100 0C N , 11000 18 O 9 10110 16 P 0 10111 17 Q 1 01010 0A R 4 00101 05 S ' 10000 10 T 5 00111 07 U 7 11110 1E V ; 10011 13 W 2 11101 1D X / 10101 15 Y 6 10001 11 Z " 01000 08 CR CR 00010 02 LF LF 00100 04 SP SP 11111 1F LTRS LTRS 11011 1B FIGS FIGS 00000 00 [..unused..] Where CR is carriage return, LF is linefeed, BELL is the bell, SP is space, and STOP is the stop character. Note: these bit values are often shown in inverse order, depending (presumably) which side of the paper tape you were looking at. Local implementations of Baudot may differ in the use of #, STOP, BELL, and '.
  • baudrillard — Jean. 1929–2007, French sociologist and theorist of postmodernism; his books include Seduction (1979), America (1986), and The Spirit of Terrorism (2002)
  • baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
  • baume scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the specific gravity of liquids. 1 degree Baumé is equal to 144.3((s–1)/s), where s is specific gravity
  • bawdy house — a brothel.
  • bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
  • bay of pigs — a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)
  • bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
  • bay village — a city in N central Ohio.
  • bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
  • bbc english — Received Pronunciation.
  • bcg vaccine — a vaccine made from weakened strains of tubercle bacilli, used to produce immunity against tuberculosis.
  • be about to — If you are about to do something, you are going to do it very soon. If something is about to happen, it will happen very soon.
  • be all ears — to be listening attentively or eagerly
  • be all that — to be exceptionally good, talented, or attractive
  • be confined — to be undergoing childbirth
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