11-Letter Words Containing B

Act of desertion

Process of giving up completely

State of desertion

Short-term (wordplay)

Just like the BBC

Shortened

Shortens a word

Turns a registered nurse into a RN (wordplay)

Creator of short sentences (wordplay)

Abdication

Abdominal

Sorted alphabetically (like this puzzle's clues)

Unusual way to see crossword clues arranged

Rudimentary

Aberrancy

They're irregular

Sailor in tears or suffering disorders

Abhorrence

Broth nearly spilt in a repugnant way

In an awful way

So as to inspire loathing

Plural or third person singular

""The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.""

Abiogenist

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

ABIOTIC relating to absence of life

Abjuration

Pertaining to ablution.

Abnegation

It's odd what a morality ban can produce

Aberrant feature

Deviance

Capable of being abolished.

The action of putting an end to (a practice)

Loathing.

Curse hum during a big road race

Action that is vile

Feeling of hatred or disgust

Abominator

Aboriginal

One who procures abortion or miscarriage.

On the surface

GROUCHY

The magic word!

Magic word - gibberish!

Spelling word (wordplay)

Abreaction

Process of shortening (a text)

Curtailment

Section of Battersea Bridge men tackled as contracted work

Abridgment

Abrogation

Abscission

It leaves one classless (wordplay)

(Practice of) staying away from work

Practice of staying away from work

Mariner answers and gets acquittals

Absolutism

People with rigid worldviews

A bandleader overcoming very old musicians, their principles undiminished

ABSOLUTIZE

Absolutize

Absorbance

Absorbing

The ratio of absorbed to incident radiation.

Absorption

No-votes (wordplay)

Third column in Congressional tallies

Characterized by abstinence; selfrestraining.

Abstinence

With abstinence.

Abstracter

Abstract

Abstract

Formless art work

Theoretical concept - removal

Preoccupied state

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.

Abstractor

Abstrict

Highly illogical situations

Mistreatment

Insults

Like a good math teacher (wordplay)

Obliged (to answer?)

Required to justify oneself

In an accountable manner.

ACERBIC {sour=adj}

Acetabulum

Acrophobia

ADDRESS to speak to

A girl, British one aflame with yen to show appeal to her man (wordplay)

A silly sailor making sketch

Overshadowing a stupid sailor

Faint sketch; outline

Act of overshadowing

Shadow a non-speaking part

Faintly representing; typical.

In the manner of an adverb.

AEROBIC requiring free oxygen

""The study of the sources, dispersion, and effects of airborne biological materials, such as pollen, spores, and microorganisms.""

AEROBRAKE

Afterbirth

Part of a jet engine increasing thrust

Pollution-control device

Jet power booster

Agoraphobe

Recluse's problem, maybe

Cause of some reclusion

Morbid fear of open spaces

Larval fruit flies with this gene never leave their eggshells

One who hates or fears cats.

Photo lab job

Photoshop job

White.

Birds of ill omen

Largest sea birds.

A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.

ALBUMIN a {protein=n}

Algebraist

Capable of being allocated.

ALPHABET a system of letters

Work on library cards

*Put in order, as files

Envoys in residence

High-ranking diplomats

Dillon, Allison, Coe, etc.

Ambergris

Ambiguity

Equivocally.

Ambisexual

Ambition

In an ambitious manner.

Mixed feelings (E, not Y)

That love-hate feeling.

Girl in a mood shows uncertainty

A balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion.

""A white or greenish mineral, (Li,Na)Al(PO 4 )(F,OH), that is an important source of lithium.""

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully.

Ambulation

Ambuscader

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

Ambushment

Ameloblast

Responsiveness

Affability

Good nature

Good will

""A barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and a hypnotic.""

Amoebocyte

""Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.""

Amphiboly

A metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase.

""A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term. equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.""

Amphibrach

A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body.

Anabaptism

Analphabet

Small room leading to a larger room

Lobby one college with sign of caution

Small entrance room

Selman Waksman's field.

Medicines destroying micro-organisms

Bacteria destroyers such as penicillin or streptomycin

BOYCOTT to refuse to have dealings with

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

Right-brained (wordplay)

OBESITY the condition of being obese

SUBSIDY a grant or contribution of money

TOBACCO an annual herb cultivated for its leaves

Worthy of being applauded.

APPLAUD to express approval by clapping the hands

Large enough to be noticed

Enough to be taken into account

Paper round gets Puck into Telegraph? That's significant

""APPRECIABLE Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity. as, an appreciable quantity.""

APPROBATE Approved.

It begins Our Father

Acclaim - applause

(Official) approval

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory.

ARABICIZE

Arability

English word

Arbitrager

Exploiter of market differences

Exploiter of stock market differences

Trader offers designer's latest little piece with passion in a very old city

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

Determination; decision; arbitration.

Highhandedly.

""ARBITRATE To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case. as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.""

Process at work in some hearings

One way to settle differences

Of or pertaining to arbitration; relating to or having the authority to arbitrate.

Dispute deciders

Treelike

Arborvitae

Arbovirus

Wearers of pallia

""That can be articulated: vague, barely articulable thoughts.""

Assemblage

Member of a legislative body

Superhero whose power is putting together IKEA furniture (wordplay)

Job mistakenly sought by a model airplane builder (wordplay)

ASSEMBLY the act of {assembling=v}

""That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.""

Having a melancholy temperament - is it a Labour failing (wordplay)

Gloomy

Irritable

""Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked.""

""ATTRIBUTE To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).""

Act of ascribing

The act of ascribing eg a picture to an artist

The ascribing of a particular work to an author or artist

Like some nouns

AUTOMATA {robots=n}

""AUTOMOBILE a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.""

Wheels out awful modern artworks after one

""Any of various rod-shaped, nonpathogenic, nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the genus Azotobacter, found in soil and water.""

Babblement

Do without restraint (wordplay)

Drunken revels - a China cabal (anagram)

Roman festival; wild revelry

The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

Bacitracin

MP without office

Rank and file MP

MP not holding office

Not in the cabinet, the rest of the MPs

Section of parliament that might check BSE ban

Backbiting

Straw, to a camel (wordplay)

The last straw

Extremely strenuous task

Remote rural region

Remote rural area

The boonies, for example

Backcross

Backcross

Backdrop

The act of refilling with earth

Backfit

Backgammon

Things checked by HR departments

They may be checked in personnel departments

Settings.

Bribes help to bring in sponsors? Just the opposite

Bribes

Backhand

Backhaul

Backlasher

Backlash

Backlight

Backlist

Backlog

*Hostel audience (wordplay)

Peripatetic football team

Wolves keeping supporters outside, walkers with their kit (wordplay)

Trekking with a rucksack

Mount Whitney activity

Hiking with a rucksack

Tried to distance oneself from a gaffe, say

SCATTER to disperse in all directions

Backslap

Effusively friendly person

Cousin of a hail-fellow-well-met.

Hail-fellow-well-met.

""BACKSLIDE to fall back, pa t BACKSLID""

Backslider

Relapsing

Covering up a typing mistake, maybe

Deleting letters, in a way

Backstab

False friend (Medical)

Treacherous person posing as a friend

Poor choice for a friend

Backstop

They may be taken to avoid snarls

Minor thoroughfares

Some shortcuts

Part of Pimlico

Part of Pimlico's field

Backstroke