11-letter words containing b, e, l, t
- bean beetle — any of a number of beetles and weevils attacking legumes, esp. the Mexican bean beetle
- bearability — the quality of being able to be borne
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- beat hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
- beautifully — in a beautiful manner
- beaver tail — a flat oval doughnut served fried and sugared
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- bedevilment — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
- beer bottle — a bottle for beer
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
- beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
- belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- 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-bottom — designating trousers or slacks that are flared beginning at the knee or mid-calf
- bell-topper — a tall silk hat
- 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
- bellybutton — the navel
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
- belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
- belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
- belt-course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- belted tire — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
- bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- 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.
- beryllonite — a mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, NaBePO 4 , occurring in colorless or light-yellow crystals, sometimes used as a gemstone.
- 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
- 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.
- better half — one's spouse
- 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
- bevel joint — a miter joint, especially one in which two pieces meet at other than a right angle.
- bi-bivalent — separating into two bivalent ions
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- biblioklept — a person who steals books.
- bibliolater — someone who reveres the Bible