11-letter words starting with B
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter B. This section showcases how B at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with B, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| businessman | 15 | a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | - |
| beautifully | 19 | in a beautiful manner | her face was beautifully made up |
| battlefield | 17 | a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | they made a tour of Civil War battlefields |
| butterflies | 16 | - | - |
| brotherhood | 20 | an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | - |
| businessmen | 15 | the body of individuals who manage businesses | - |
| bulletproof | 18 | without flaws or loopholes | a bulletproof argument |
| babysitting | 19 | the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home | - |
| billionaire | 13 | a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars | - |
| brainwashed | 20 | subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | brainwashed prisoners of war |
| bloodstream | 16 | the blood flowing through the circulatory system | - |
| blindfolded | 19 | wearing a blindfold | - |
| beneficiary | 21 | the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | - |
| bourgeoisie | 14 | the social class between the lower and upper classes | - |
| brilliantly | 16 | with brightness | the stars shone brilliantly |
| bureaucracy | 20 | nonelective government officials | - |
| blockbuster | 21 | an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | - |
| bombardment | 20 | an attack by dropping bombs | - |
| blackmailer | 21 | a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | - |
| bullfighter | 20 | someone who fights bulls | - |
| biochemical | 22 | of or relating to biochemistry; involving chemical processes in living organisms | - |
| bittersweet | 16 | having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | - |
| bellybutton | 18 | a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton |
| blasphemous | 20 | grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath |
| belligerent | 14 | characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | a belligerent tone |
| bloodsucker | 20 | carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | - |
| backpacking | 28 | carrying something in a pack on the back | the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts |
| benevolence | 18 | an act intending or showing kindness and good will | - |
| bereavement | 18 | state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | - |
| bookkeeping | 24 | the activity of recording business transactions | - |
| behavioural | 19 | of or relating to behavior | - |
| bodhisattva | 20 | Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others | - |
| broadcasted | 17 | - | - |
| breadwinner | 17 | one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents | - |
| backstabber | 23 | - | - |
| breastplate | 15 | armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | - |
| broadcaster | 16 | a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | - |
| bicarbonate | 17 | a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate | - |
| benediction | 16 | the act of praying for divine protection | - |
| bodybuilder | 20 | someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | - |
| bioelectric | 17 | - | - |
| bootlegging | 16 | the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | the Prohibition amendment made bootlegging profitable |
| backstretch | 24 | - | - |
| benchwarmer | 23 | - | - |
| boysenberry | 21 | cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries | - |
| boilerplate | 15 | standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories | - |
| bucktoothed | 23 | - | - |
| burglarized | 24 | - | - |
| botheration | 16 | something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | - |
| barbiturate | 15 | organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal | - |
| blaspheming | 21 | - | - |
| bisexuality | 23 | showing characteristics of both sexes | - |
| backstabbed | 24 | - | - |
| breadbasket | 20 | an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | - |
| backsliding | 21 | a failure to maintain a higher state | - |
| bifurcation | 18 | a bifurcating branch (one or both of them) | - |
| biofeedback | 25 | a training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them | - |
| bourguignon | 15 | reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | - |
| beneficence | 20 | doing good; feeling beneficent | - |
| behaviorism | 21 | an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | - |
| battlefront | 16 | the line along which opposing armies face each other | - |
| blockheaded | 24 | (used informally) stupid | - |
| boilermaker | 19 | - | - |
| bricklaying | 23 | the craft of laying bricks | - |
| blessedness | 14 | a state of supreme happiness | - |
| bushwhacker | 28 | a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | - |
| boorishness | 16 | inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor | - |
| bachelordom | 21 | - | - |
| bibliophile | 20 | someone who loves (and usually collects) books | - |
| bastardized | 24 | deriving from more than one source or style | - |
| barnstormer | 15 | a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | - |
| barricading | 17 | - | - |
| beguilement | 16 | magnetic personal charm | - |
| beautifying | 20 | - | - |
| beastliness | 13 | the quality of being deliberately mean | - |
| blockhouses | 22 | - | - |
| bookbinding | 21 | the craft of binding books | - |
| bilaterally | 16 | with the involvement of two parties or governments | they worked out an agreement bilaterally |
| brownnosing | 17 | - | - |
| brucellosis | 15 | an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings | - |
| browbeating | 19 | - | - |
| burgomaster | 16 | a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
| boutonniere | 13 | a flower that is worn in a buttonhole | - |
| backslapper | 23 | someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality | - |
| backstamped | 24 | - | - |
| backstopped | 24 | - | - |
| backstories | 19 | - | - |
| backstreets | 19 | - | - |
| backstrokes | 23 | - | - |
| backtracked | 26 | - | - |
| backvelders | 23 | - | - |
| backslashes | 22 | - | - |
| backslidden | 21 | - | - |
| backsliders | 20 | - | - |
| backspacers | 23 | - | - |
| backspacing | 24 | - | - |
| backspeered | 22 | - | - |
| backspeired | 22 | - | - |
| backwashing | 26 | - | - |
| backworkers | 26 | - | - |
| bacteraemia | 17 | - | - |
| bacterurias | 15 | - | - |
| baculovirus | 18 | - | - |
| baddeleyite | 18 | a mineral consisting of zirconium oxide | - |
| badderlocks | 21 | - | - |
| badmouthing | 20 | - | - |
| bafflements | 21 | - | - |
| bagginesses | 15 | - | - |
| bagswingers | 18 | - | - |
| bacterizing | 25 | - | - |
| bacteriuria | 15 | - | - |
| bacteremias | 17 | - | - |
| bacterially | 18 | by bacteria | spreads bacterially |
| bactericide | 18 | any chemical agent that destroys bacteria | - |
| bacteriocin | 17 | - | - |
| bacterioids | 16 | - | - |
| bacterioses | 15 | - | - |
| bacteriosis | 15 | - | - |
| bacterising | 16 | - | - |
| bailieships | 18 | - | - |
| backslapped | 24 | - | - |
| bacillicide | 18 | - | - |
| backchecked | 31 | - | - |
| backcombing | 26 | - | - |
| backcountry | 24 | - | - |
| backcrossed | 22 | - | - |
| backcrosses | 21 | - | - |
| backdraught | 24 | - | - |
| backdropped | 25 | - | - |
| backfilling | 23 | - | - |
| backchatted | 25 | - | - |
| backburning | 22 | - | - |
| bacilliform | 20 | formed like a bacillus | - |
| bacillurias | 15 | - | - |
| bacitracins | 17 | - | - |
| backbencher | 26 | a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
| backbenches | 26 | - | - |
| backbitings | 22 | - | - |
| backblocker | 27 | - | - |
| backbreaker | 25 | - | - |
| backfisches | 27 | - | - |
| backfitting | 23 | - | - |
| backflipped | 27 | - | - |
| backlogging | 22 | - | - |
| backmarkers | 25 | - | - |
| backpackers | 27 | - | - |
| backpedaled | 23 | - | - |
| backscatter | 21 | scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
| backscratch | 26 | - | - |
| backshished | 26 | - | - |
| backloading | 21 | - | - |
| backlisting | 20 | - | - |
| backgammons | 24 | - | - |
| backgrounds | 21 | - | - |
| backhanders | 23 | - | - |
| backhanding | 24 | - | - |
| backhauling | 23 | - | - |
| backlashers | 22 | - | - |
| backlashing | 23 | - | - |
| backlighted | 24 | - | - |
| backshishes | 25 | - | - |
| bandinesses | 14 | - | - |
| bankrolling | 18 | - | - |
| bankrupting | 20 | - | - |
| bannerettes | 13 | - | - |
| banqueteers | 22 | - | - |
| banquetings | 23 | - | - |
| banteringly | 17 | in a bantering fashion | he spoke to her banteringly |
| bantingisms | 16 | - | - |
| baptismally | 20 | - | - |
| bankrollers | 17 | - | - |
| bankability | 22 | - | - |
| bandleaders | 15 | - | - |
| bandmasters | 16 | - | - |
| bandoleered | 15 | - | - |
| bandoliered | 15 | - | - |
| bandolining | 15 | - | - |
| baneberries | 15 | - | - |
| banefulness | 16 | - | - |
| banishments | 18 | - | - |
| baptistries | 15 | - | - |
| barasinghas | 17 | - | - |
| barbaresque | 24 | - | - |
| barefacedly | 22 | without shame | - |
| barehanding | 18 | - | - |
| baresthesia | 16 | - | - |
| bargainings | 15 | - | - |
| bargeboards | 17 | - | - |
| bargemaster | 16 | - | - |
| barkantines | 17 | - | - |
| barkentines | 17 | - | - |
| barebacking | 22 | - | - |
| bardolaters | 14 | - | - |
| barbarising | 16 | - | - |
| barbarities | 15 | - | - |
| barbarizing | 25 | - | - |
| barbarously | 18 | in a barbarous manner | they were barbarously murdered |
| barbastelle | 15 | - | - |
| barbershops | 20 | - | - |
| barcarolles | 15 | - | - |
| barleycorns | 18 | - | - |
| bandicooted | 17 | - | - |
| bailiffship | 24 | the office of bailiff | - |
| baldachinos | 19 | - | - |
| balderlocks | 20 | - | - |
| balefulness | 16 | the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | - |
| balibuntals | 15 | - | - |
| balkanising | 18 | - | - |
| balkanizing | 27 | - | - |
| balkinesses | 17 | - | - |
| balladeered | 15 | - | - |
| balconettes | 15 | - | - |
| balbriggans | 17 | - | - |
| baillieship | 18 | - | - |
| bakhshished | 27 | - | - |
| bakhshishes | 26 | - | - |
| baksheeshed | 24 | - | - |
| baksheeshes | 23 | - | - |
| bakshishing | 24 | - | - |
| balanceable | 17 | - | - |
| balanitises | 13 | - | - |
| ballbreaker | 19 | - | - |
| ballcarrier | 15 | - | - |
| balletomane | 15 | a ballet enthusiast | - |
| balmorality | 18 | - | - |
| balneations | 13 | - | - |
| balustraded | 15 | - | - |
| balustrades | 14 | - | - |
| bamboozlers | 26 | - | - |
| bamboozling | 27 | - | - |
| bancassurer | 15 | - | - |
| bandeirante | 14 | - | - |
| balminesses | 15 | - | - |
| ballyragged | 19 | - | - |
| ballflowers | 19 | - | - |
| ballicatter | 15 | - | - |
| ballistites | 13 | - | - |
| ballocksing | 20 | - | - |
| balloonings | 14 | - | - |
| balloonists | 13 | - | - |
| ballplayers | 18 | - | - |
| ballyhooing | 20 | - | - |
| banderillas | 14 | - | - |
| bacillemias | 17 | - | - |
| babooneries | 15 | - | - |
| babyproofed | 24 | - | - |
| bacchanalia | 20 | an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus) | - |
| bacciferous | 20 | producing or bearing berries | - |
| baccivorous | 20 | feeding on berries | - |
| bachelorism | 20 | - | - |
| babiroussas | 15 | - | - |
| babblements | 19 | - | - |
| babbittries | 17 | - | - |
| bacillaemia | 17 | - | - |
| benefaction | 18 | an act intending or showing kindness and good will | - |
| benightened | 18 | - | - |
| benightings | 18 | - | - |
| benightment | 19 | - | - |
| benignantly | 17 | in a benign manner | - |
| benignities | 14 | - | - |
| bentgrasses | 14 | - | - |
| benthoscope | 20 | - | - |
| benumbingly | 21 | - | - |
| benightedly | 21 | - | - |
| benefactors | 18 | - | - |
| benefactory | 21 | - | - |
| beneficials | 18 | - | - |
| beneficiate | 18 | process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
| benefitting | 17 | - | - |
| beneplacito | 17 | - | - |
| benumbments | 19 | - | - |
| benzocaines | 24 | - | - |
| benzofurans | 25 | - | - |
| berascaling | 16 | - | - |
| bergschrund | 20 | - | - |
| berryfruits | 19 | - | - |
| bersagliere | 14 | - | - |
| bersaglieri | 14 | - | - |
| beryllioses | 16 | - | - |
| berylliosis | 16 | - | - |
| bequeathing | 26 | - | - |
| bequeathers | 25 | - | - |
| benzpyrenes | 27 | - | - |
| benzylidine | 26 | - | - |
| bepeppering | 20 | - | - |
| bepestering | 16 | - | - |
| beplastered | 16 | - | - |
| bepommelled | 20 | - | - |
| bepowdering | 20 | - | - |
| bequeathals | 25 | - | - |
| bescattered | 16 | - | - |
| benefacting | 19 | - | - |
| beknighting | 22 | - | - |
| bellettrist | 13 | - | - |
| bellflowers | 19 | - | - |
| bellfounder | 17 | - | - |
| bellfoundry | 20 | - | - |
| bellhangers | 17 | - | - |
| bellicosely | 18 | - | - |
| bellicosity | 18 | a natural disposition to fight | - |
| belligerati | 14 | - | - |
| belletrists | 13 | - | - |
| belletrisms | 15 | - | - |
| belabouring | 16 | - | - |
| belatedness | 14 | - | - |
| beleaguered | 15 | - | - |
| believingly | 20 | in a credulous manner | - |
| beliquoring | 23 | - | - |
| belladonnas | 14 | - | - |
| bellamoures | 15 | - | - |
| bellarmines | 15 | - | - |
| bellwethers | 19 | - | - |
| bellyachers | 21 | - | - |
| bemurmuring | 18 | - | - |
| bemusements | 17 | - | - |
| benchership | 23 | - | - |
| benchmarked | 25 | - | - |
| benedicites | 16 | - | - |
| benedictive | 19 | expressing benediction | - |
| bemonstered | 16 | - | - |
| bemedalling | 17 | - | - |
| bellyaching | 22 | - | - |
| belomancies | 17 | - | - |
| belowground | 18 | under the level of the ground | belowground storage areas |
| belowstairs | 16 | - | - |
| belshazzars | 34 | - | - |
| beltcourses | 15 | - | - |
| bemaddening | 18 | - | - |
| benedictory | 19 | expressing benediction | - |
| betulaceous | 15 | of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees of the birch family | - |
| bibliomanes | 17 | - | - |
| bibliomania | 17 | preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
| bibliopegic | 20 | - | - |
| bibliophils | 20 | - | - |
| bibliophily | 23 | - | - |
| bibliopoles | 17 | - | - |
| bibliopolic | 19 | of or relating to bibliopoles | - |
| bibliomancy | 22 | - | - |
| bibliolatry | 18 | the worship of the Bible | - |
| betweenness | 16 | - | - |
| betweentime | 18 | - | - |
| bewailingly | 20 | - | - |
| bewhiskered | 24 | having hair on the cheeks and chin | - |
| bewildering | 18 | - | - |
| bewitchment | 23 | a magical spell | - |
| biauricular | 15 | relating to the two auditory openings | the biauricular diameter of the skull |
| bibliolater | 15 | - | - |
| bibliotheca | 20 | a collection of books | - |
| bibliotists | 15 | - | - |
| biddability | 20 | - | - |
| bidialectal | 16 | - | - |
| bidonvilles | 17 | - | - |
| bienseances | 15 | - | - |
| bierkellers | 17 | - | - |
| bifariously | 19 | - | - |
| bifoliolate | 16 | - | - |
| bifurcating | 19 | - | - |
| bicuspidate | 18 | having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | - |
| bicorporate | 17 | - | - |
| bicentenary | 18 | of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | - |
| bicephalous | 20 | having two heads | - |
| bichlorides | 19 | - | - |
| bichromated | 21 | treated or combined with bichromate | - |
| bichromates | 20 | - | - |
| bicomponent | 19 | - | - |
| biconcavity | 23 | - | - |
| biconvexity | 28 | - | - |
| betterments | 15 | - | - |
| bescorching | 21 | - | - |
| besiegingly | 18 | - | - |
| beslavering | 17 | - | - |
| beslobbered | 18 | - | - |
| beslubbered | 18 | - | - |
| besmirching | 21 | - | - |
| besmoothing | 19 | - | - |
| besmutching | 21 | - | - |
| bespangling | 17 | - | - |
| besiegement | 16 | - | - |
| beshrouding | 18 | - | - |
| bescrawling | 19 | - | - |
| bescreening | 16 | - | - |
| bescribbled | 20 | - | - |
| bescribbles | 19 | - | - |
| beseechings | 19 | - | - |
| beseemingly | 19 | - | - |
| beshadowing | 21 | - | - |
| beshivering | 20 | - | - |
| bespattered | 16 | - | - |
| bespeckling | 22 | - | - |
| bespreading | 17 | - | - |
| bestreaking | 18 | - | - |
| bestridable | 16 | - | - |
| bestsellers | 13 | - | - |
| bestselling | 14 | - | - |
| betacyanins | 18 | - | - |
| betattering | 14 | - | - |
| bethralling | 17 | - | - |
| bethwacking | 26 | - | - |
| bestraddles | 15 | - | - |
| bestraddled | 16 | - | - |
| besprinkled | 20 | - | - |
| besprinkles | 19 | - | - |
| bestialised | 14 | - | - |
| bestialises | 13 | - | - |
| bestialisms | 15 | - | - |
| bestialized | 23 | - | - |
| bestializes | 22 | - | - |
| bestowments | 18 | - | - |
| betrothment | 18 | - | - |
| bejewelling | 24 | - | - |
| basketworks | 24 | - | - |
| bastinadoed | 15 | - | - |
| bastinadoes | 14 | - | - |
| bastnaesite | 13 | a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements | - |
| bastnasites | 13 | - | - |
| batfowlings | 20 | - | - |
| bathmitsvah | 24 | - | - |
| bathmitzvah | 33 | - | - |
| bathmizvahs | 33 | - | - |
| bastinading | 15 | - | - |
| bastardries | 14 | - | - |
| basmitzvahs | 30 | - | - |
| basophilias | 18 | - | - |
| bassoonists | 13 | - | - |
| bastardised | 15 | deriving from more than one source or style | - |
| bastardises | 14 | - | - |
| bastardisms | 16 | - | - |
| bastardizes | 23 | - | - |
| bathochrome | 23 | - | - |
| batholithic | 21 | of or relating to a batholith | - |
| bathometers | 18 | - | - |
| batmitzvahs | 30 | - | - |
| batological | 16 | - | - |
| batologists | 14 | - | - |
| batrachians | 18 | - | - |
| batsmanship | 20 | - | - |
| battinesses | 13 | - | - |
| battlebuses | 15 | - | - |
| battledoors | 14 | - | - |
| bathysphere | 24 | spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration | - |
| bathyscaphs | 26 | - | - |
| bathometric | 20 | - | - |
| bathophobia | 23 | - | - |
| bathybiuses | 21 | - | - |
| bathylithic | 24 | - | - |
| bathymeters | 21 | - | - |
| bathymetric | 23 | of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes | - |
| bathyscapes | 23 | - | - |
| bathyscaphe | 26 | navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration | - |
| battledores | 14 | - | - |
| basketweave | 23 | - | - |
| barminesses | 15 | - | - |
| barotraumas | 15 | - | - |
| barquantine | 22 | - | - |
| barquentine | 22 | - | - |
| barrackings | 20 | - | - |
| barracootas | 15 | - | - |
| barracoutas | 15 | - | - |
| barramundas | 16 | - | - |
| barramundis | 16 | - | - |
| baronetical | 15 | - | - |
| baronetcies | 15 | - | - |
| barmitsvahs | 21 | - | - |
| barmitzvahs | 30 | - | - |
| barnstormed | 16 | - | - |
| baroceptors | 17 | - | - |
| barographic | 21 | relating to or registered by a barograph | - |
| barometries | 15 | - | - |
| baronetages | 14 | - | - |
| barrelheads | 17 | - | - |
| barrelhouse | 16 | a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | - |
| barrenworts | 16 | - | - |
| baserunners | 13 | - | - |
| baserunning | 14 | - | - |
| bashawships | 24 | - | - |
| bashfulness | 19 | feeling embarrassed due to modesty | - |
| bashibazouk | 31 | - | - |
| basicranial | 15 | - | - |
| basidiocarp | 18 | the fruiting body of a basidiomycete which bears its spores on special cells | - |
| basipetally | 18 | - | - |
| baseburners | 15 | - | - |
| baseballers | 15 | - | - |
| barricaders | 16 | - | - |
| barricadoed | 17 | - | - |
| barricadoes | 16 | - | - |
| barycentres | 18 | - | - |
| barycentric | 20 | - | - |
| baryspheres | 21 | - | - |
| basaltwares | 16 | - | - |
| basketballs | 19 | - | - |
| bedarkening | 19 | - | - |
| bedrenching | 20 | - | - |
| bedriveling | 18 | - | - |
| bedrivelled | 18 | - | - |
| beefburgers | 19 | - | - |
| beefinesses | 16 | - | - |
| beekeepings | 20 | - | - |
| beerinesses | 13 | - | - |
| beetlebrain | 15 | - | - |
| bedraggling | 17 | - | - |
