11-letter words containing a, b, o, v
- a cut above — If you say that someone or something is a cut above other people or things of the same kind, you mean they are better than them.
- abbreviator — to shorten (a word or phrase) by omitting letters, substituting shorter forms, etc., so that the shortened form can represent the whole word or phrase, as ft. for foot, ab. for about, R.I. for Rhode Island, NW for Northwest, or Xn for Christian.
- above board — An arrangement or deal that is above board is legal and is being carried out honestly and openly.
- above-named — used in a text to refer back to a person or thing that has already been named
- aboveground — occurring, situated, etc. above or on the surface of the earth
- absolvitory — Of or pertaining to a dismissal or an acquittal.
- action verb — a verb, as run, think, or soothe, that expresses something that a person, animal, object, or process in nature can do, as in Close the door! or The storm is flooding many houses along the coast, rather than expressing a state of being. Compare copula (def 2), stative.
- advice boat — a fast boat for conveying messages; dispatch boat.
- album cover — the front of the outer packaging of a record album, usually decorated and showing its title and the name of the artist
- ambiversion — a condition or character trait that includes elements of both introversion and extroversion
- approbative — showing approbation or approval
- arbor vitae — any of several Asian and North American evergreen coniferous trees of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis, esp Thuja occidentalis, having tiny scalelike leaves and egglike cones
- arborvitaes — Plural form of arborvitae.
- arboviruses — Plural form of arbovirus.
- baccivorous — feeding on berries
- backsolving — Present participle of backsolve.
- baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
- baranovichi — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
- baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
- bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
- beaverboard — a stiff light board of compressed wood fibre, used esp to surface partitions
- beaverbrook — 1st Baron, title of William Maxwell Aitken. 1879–1964, British newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician, born in Canada, whose newspapers included the Daily Express; minister of information (1918); minister of aircraft production (1940–41)
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
- ben trovato — appropriate and characteristic even if untrue; happily invented or discovered.
- bioactivity — any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.
- bisociative — relating to bisociation
- bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black ivory — Black slaves collectively
- black olive — a tropical American tree, Bucida buceras, having leathery leaves and greenish-yellow flowers.
- black volta — a river in W Africa, rising in SW Burkina Faso and flowing northeast, then south into Lake Volta: forms part of the border of Ghana with Burkina-Faso and with Côte d'Ivoire. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)
- black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
- blagonravov — Anatoli Arkadyevich [an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee uhr-kah-dyi-vyich] /ˈæn əˌtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi ʌrˈkɑ dyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1975, Russian scientist.
- bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
- body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
- bonaventura — Saint, called the Seraphic Doctor. 1221–74, Italian Franciscan monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher; author of a Life of St Francis and Journey of the Soul to God. Feast day: July 14
- bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- boniface iv — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
- bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- brake servo — The brake servo is a device for increasing the pressure of the driver's foot on the brake pedal.
- bravo-river — Mexican Rio Bravo. a river flowing from SW Colorado through central New Mexico and along the boundary between Texas and Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
- break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
- broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- bust a move — go, leave
- cablevision — cable television.
- combatively — In a combative way.
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