11-letter words starting with be
- bedside rug — a rug beside a bed
- bee's knees — an excellent or ideally suitable person or thing
- beech grove — a grove of beech trees
- beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
- beef tomato — a very large fleshy variety of tomato
- beefburgers — Plural form of beefburger.
- been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
- beer barrel — a barrel for, or containing beer
- beer bottle — a bottle for beer
- beer engine — a pump used to draw beer from a cask
- beer garden — a garden attached to a pub, where people can sit and drink beer
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
- before dark — If you do something before dark, you do it before the sun sets and night begins.
- before long — If you say that something will happen or happened before long, you mean that it will happen or happened soon.
- beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
- behind bars — If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
- behind line — the line over which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
- behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
- behind time — late
- beiderbecke — Leon Bismarcke, known as Bix. 1903–31, US jazz cornettist, composer, and pianist
- beilan pass — a mountain pass in SE Turkey near Syria. 2395 feet (730 meters).
- belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
- belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
- believingly — with belief; in a believing manner
- belize city — a port and the largest city in Belize, on the Caribbean coast: capital until 1973, when that function was transferred inland to Belmopan owing to hurricane risk. Pop: 53 000 (2005 est)
- bell beaker — a bell-shaped beaker, especially one associated with the Beaker folk.
- bell bronze — an alloy of copper and tin that contains a high proportion (at least 20 per cent) of tin: used for bell founding
- bell pepper — A bell pepper is a hollow green, red, or yellow vegetable with seeds.
- bell ringer — A bell ringer is someone who rings church bells or hand bells, especially as a hobby.
- bell-bottom — designating trousers or slacks that are flared beginning at the knee or mid-calf
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- bell-topper — a tall silk hat
- belle glade — a city in SE Florida.
- bellerophon — a hero of Corinth who performed many deeds with the help of the winged horse Pegasus, notably the killing of the monster Chimera
- bellfounder — a foundry worker who casts bells
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- belligerati — intellectuals, such as writers, who advocate war or imperialism
- belligerent — A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
- bellmouthed — having a flaring mouth or opening like that of a bell
- belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
- belly laugh — A belly laugh is a very loud, deep laugh.
- belly-helve — a triphammer in which the cams act at a point along the helve, partway between the fulcrum and the head.
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- bellybutton — the navel
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture