11-letter words containing a, b, s, e, n
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- blank shell — a shotgun shell containing powder but no shot.
- blank slate — tabula rasa.
- blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blind snake — any burrowing snake of the family Typhlopidae and related families of warm and tropical regions, having very small or vestigial eyes
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- 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)
- bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- box spanner — a spanner consisting of a steel cylinder with a hexagonal end that fits over a nut: used esp to turn nuts in positions that are recessed or difficult of access
- brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
- branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
- brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
- break ranks — to fall out of line, esp when under attack
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
- bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
- brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
- bunyanesque — of immense size or stature, as ascribed to Paul Bunyan or to the other characters, exploits, etc., in the legends about him.
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- businessman — A businessman is a man who works in business.
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by no means — on no account; in no way
- cablevision — cable television.
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- cannibalise — to subject to cannibalism.
- capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
- carabineers — Plural form of carabineer.
- carabineros — Plural form of carabinero.
- carbapenems — Plural form of carbapenem.
- carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
- castor bean — the seed of this plant
- chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar
- chelyabinsk — an industrial city in SW Russia; in 2013 a large meteor exploded in an airburst over the city's surrounding district. Pop: 1 067 000 (2005 est)