11-letter words that end in t
- blue helmet — a member of a United Nations military force, usually deployed on peacekeeping missions, and recognizable by a helmet or beret of a distinctive light blue colour
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- blue velvet — a mixture of paregoric and Pyribenzamine taken by vein as an illicit drug.
- body combat — a type of fitness programme in which individuals perform non-contact martial arts moves to music
- boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
- bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
- bon appetit — enjoy your meal
- bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
- bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bonus point — an additional point in a game, a sporting competition, or any similar scheme in which points can be awarded
- book jacket — a removable paper cover used to protect a bound book
- boost-start — jump-start.
- bottom bolt — a bolt at the bottom of a door or the like, sliding into a socket in the floor or sill and equipped with a device for keeping it raised when the door is not fastened.
- bottom heat — heat artificially applied to a container in which plants are grown in order to induce their germination, rooting, or growth.
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
- brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
- brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
- branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
- brandy mint — peppermint.
- breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- breath test — A breath test is a test carried out by police in which a driver blows into a piece of equipment to show how much alcohol he or she has drunk.
- breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
- breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
- brick-built — made of bricks
- bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
- brook trout — a North American freshwater trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, introduced in Europe and valued as a food and game fish
- brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
- brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
- brown toast — toasted wholemeal bread
- brown trout — a common brownish variety of the trout Salmo trutta that occurs in the rivers of N Europe and has been successfully introduced in North America
- brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
- bss segment — Block Started by Symbol
- bubble sort — A sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries "bubble upward" in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value. Because it is not very good relative to other methods and is the one typically stumbled on by naive and untutored programmers, hackers consider it the canonical example of a naive algorithm. The canonical example of a really *bad* algorithm is bogo-sort. A bubble sort might be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue only from brain damage or willful perversity.
- buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
- bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
- bugging out — Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
- bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bumble-foot — an inflammatory condition of the feet of birds, usually caused by an infection
- bunch light — a light consisting of a group of small light bulbs mounted in a reflecting box.
- burkburnett — a town in N Texas.
- burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
- burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing