11-letter words starting with be
- bent double — If someone is bent double, the top part of their body is leaning forward towards their legs, usually because they are in great pain or because they are laughing a lot. In American English, you can also say that someone is bent over double.
- benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
- benue-congo — a branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages, consisting of the Bantu languages together with certain other languages of W Africa
- benzonatate — a nonnarcotic substance, C 30 H 53 NO 11 , used as a cough suppressant.
- benzopyrene — an aromatic hydrocarbon, C20H12, found in coal tar, cigarette smoke, etc. and known to be a cause of cancer in animals
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
- bergenfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
- bering time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
- berkeley fp — (language) A version of Backus's FP distributed with 4.2BSD Unix.
- berkeleyism — any philosophical system or doctrine derived from the views of Bishop Berkeley.
- berlin wall — a wall dividing the east and west sectors of Berlin, built in 1961 by the East German authorities to stop the flow of refugees from east to west; demolition of the wall began in 1989
- berlin wool — a fine wool yarn used for tapestry work, etc
- bermuda bag — an oval-shaped handbag with wooden handles and changeable decorative cloth covers.
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- berners-lee — Sir Tim. born 1955, British computer scientist who in 1990 created the World Wide Web
- berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
- bersagliere — a member of a rifle regiment in the Italian Army
- bertrandite — a mineral, hydrous beryllium silicate, Be 4 Si 2 O 7 (OH) 2 , colorless or pale yellow, with a vitreous luster, occurring as tabular or prismatic crystals in pegmatites and hydrothermal veins.
- beryl green — a light bluish green.
- berylliosis — a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium
- beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
- berzerkeley — (humour) /b*r-zer'klee/ (From "berserk", via the name of a now-deceased record label) A humorous distortion of "Berkeley" used especially to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix hackers. See software bloat, Missed'em-five, Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s.
- beseemingly — in a manner that is beseeming
- besiegement — the state of being besieged
- besiegingly — in an urgent or important manner
- best effort — (networking) A classification of low priority network traffic, used especially the Internet. Different kinds of traffic have different priorities. Videoconferencing and other types of real-time communication, for example, require a certain minimum guaranteed bandwidth and latency and so must be given a high priority. Electronic mail, on the other hand, can tolerate an arbitrarily long delay and is classified as a "best-effort" service.
- best friend — a dearest friend
- best of all — You use best of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the thing that you prefer or that has most advantages out of all the things you have mentioned.
- best seller — A best seller is a book of which a lot of copies have been sold.
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- 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.
- betsiamites — a river in E Quebec, Canada, flowing SE to the St. Lawrence River. 240 miles (386 km) long.
- better half — one's spouse
- better than — superior to
- betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
- betting tax — a tax on gambling
- betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
- betweenness — the condition of being between
- betweentime — the time between events; interval
- beurre noir — a sauce of darkly browned butter, sometimes flavored with herbs, vinegar, etc.
- bevel joint — a miter joint, especially one in which two pieces meet at other than a right angle.
- bevel wheel — a toothed wheel, set at an oblique angle to the axis
- bewhiskered — having whiskers on the cheeks