11-letter words that end in e
- badger game — the blackmailing of a man by maneuvering him into a compromising situation with a woman
- baffleplate — a plate used as a baffle.
- bal musette — a dance hall in France in which the music is provided by an accordion band.
- ballet shoe — a flexible, lightweight shoe designed for ballet dancing; typically made of leather or silk, and often fastened with ribbons
- balletomane — a person enthusiastic about the ballet
- bamboo ware — a cane-colored Wedgwood stoneware of c1770 imitating bamboo.
- bandeirante — a 16th–18th-century Portugese explorer in South America motivated by profit, known for hunting down natives for slaves as well as for locating mines of precious stones and metals
- bannerstone — a North American prehistoric stone implement in the form of a double-edged ax with a notch or hole, possibly for attaching a handle.
- banyan-tree — Also called banyan tree. an East Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, of the mulberry family, having branches that send out adventitious roots to the ground and sometimes cause the tree to spread over a wide area.
- barbaresque — (particularly of art) stylistically barbaric
- barbary ape — a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates
- barbastelle — an insectivorous forest bat, Barbastella barbastellus, widely distributed across Eurasia, having a wrinkled face and prominent ears: roosts in trees or caves
- barbed tape — wire with razor-sharp edges or projections, placed in coils as a barrier along the tops of fences or walls, as at a prison.
- barbed wire — Barbed wire is strong wire with sharp points sticking out of it, and is used to make fences.
- barber pole — a pole with spiral stripes of red and white, used as a symbol of the barber's trade
- barbiturate — A barbiturate is a drug which people take to make them calm or to help them to sleep.
- bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
- bargainable — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
- bark beetle — any small beetle of the family Scolytidae, which bore tunnels in the bark and wood of trees, causing great damage. They are closely related to the weevils
- barley wine — an exceptionally strong beer
- barley-bree — liquor, malt liquor, or the like, especially whiskey.
- barquentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
- barrel-race — to compete in a barrel race.
- barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
- basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
- base clause — the initial element of a recursive definition, that defines the first element of the infinite sequence generated thereby
- base estate — an estate held from a lord on the condition of performing some service, especially service of a demeaning nature.
- 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)
- 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.
- basketweave — a weave of two or more yarns together, resembling that of a basket, esp in wool or linen fabric
- bass fiddle — double bass.
- basse-terre — a mountainous island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands, comprising part of Guadeloupe. Area: 848 sq km (327 sq miles)
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
- batter pile — a pile driven at an angle to the vertical.
- 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 zone — an area where a battle or battles are being fought
- battlepiece — a painting, relief, mosaic, etc, depicting a battle, usually commemorating an actual event
- battleplane — an airplane designed for combat; warplane.
- 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