11-letter words containing a, b, s
- arboraceous — resembling a tree
- arborescent — having the shape or characteristics of a tree
- arborvitaes — Plural form of arborvitae.
- arboviruses — Plural form of arbovirus.
- archbishops — Plural form of archbishop.
- arms akimbo — with hands on hips and elbows projecting outwards
- arquebusade — the shot of an arquebus
- arquebusier — harquebusier.
- arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
- artsybashev — Mikhail [Russian myi-khuh-yeel] /Russian myɪ xʌˈyil/ (Show IPA), Artzybashev, Mikhail.
- artzybashev — Mikhail [myi-khuh-yeel] /myɪ xʌˈyil/ (Show IPA), 1878–1927, Russian writer.
- asbestiform — having the look or structure of asbestos
- asbury park — city in EC N.J., on the Atlantic: an ocean resort: pop. 17,000
- asciibonics — (chat) (From ASCII and Ebonics) A style of text communication in English which is most common on talk systems such as irc. Its notable characteristics are: Typing all in lowercase (and occasionally all in uppercase). Copious use of abbreviations of the sort "u" for "you" "1" for "one" (and therefore "some1" for "someone", "ne1" for "anyone"), "2" for "to", "r" for "are", etc. A general lack of punctuation, except for strings of question marks and exclamation marks. Common use of the idiom "m or f?", meant to elicit a statement of the listener's gender. Typical extended discourse in ASCIIbonics: "hey wasup ne1 want 2 cyber?" "m or f?" ASCIIbonics is similar to the way B1FF talked, although B1FF used more punctuation (lots more), and used all uppercase, rather than all lowercase. What's more, B1FF was only interested in warez, and so never asked "m or f?". It has been widely observed that some of the purest examples of ASCIIbonics come from non-native speakers of English. The phenomenon of ASCIIbonics predates by several years the use of the word "ASCIIbonics", as the word could only have been coined in or after late 1996, when "Ebonics" was first used in the US media to denote the US English dialects known in the linguistic literature as "Black Vernacular English".
- ashwaubenon — a town in E Wisconsin.
- assemblages — Plural form of assemblage.
- assemblance — the action or process of gathering or congregating
- assemblyman — In the United States, an assemblyman is an elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
- assemblymen — Plural form of assemblyman.
- assimilable — capable of being assimilated.
- assiniboine — a river in W Canada, rising in E Saskatchewan and flowing southeast and east to the Red River at Winnipeg. Length: over 860 km (500 miles)
- assubjugate — to cause to be oppressed or overpowered
- astral body — Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
- astraphobia — a fear of thunder and lightning
- astroblemes — Plural form of astrobleme.
- astrobotany — the branch of botany that investigates the possibility that plants grow on other planets
- astrophobia — A fear of stars and celestial space.
- atrabilious — irritable
- audibleness — The state or quality of being audible.
- automobiles — Plural form of automobile.
- babassu oil — a yellow oil expressed or extracted from babassu nuts, used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps and cosmetics and as a cooking oil.
- babelicious — (of a woman) sexually very attractive.
- baby shower — gift-giving party for unborn baby
- baby sister — a younger sister
- baby-scales — scales used for weighing babies
- baby-sitter — a person who takes care of a child or children while the parents are out
- babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
- babyishness — The state or quality of being babyish.
- babylonians — of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
- babysitters — Plural form of babysitter.
- babysitting — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- baccivorous — feeding on berries
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- back stairs — stairs at the back of a house, as for use by servants.
- back street — A back street in a town or city is a small, narrow street with very little traffic.
- back-stitch — stitching or a stitch in which the thread is doubled back on the preceding stitch.
- back-street — taking place in secrecy and often illegally: back-street political maneuvering; back-street drug dealing.
- backbenches — The backbenches are the seats in the British House of Commons where backbenchers sit. The Members of Parliament who sit on the backbenches are also referred to as the backbenches.