11-letter words containing a, b, s
- backcasting — Present participle of backcast.
- backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
- backcrosses — Plural form of backcross.
- backgammons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backgammon.
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
- backlashing — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backlisting — Present participle of backlist.
- backmarkers — Plural form of backmarker.
- backpackers — Plural form of backpacker.
- backscatter — the scattering of particles or radiation, such as sound waves, X-rays, or alpha-particles, by the atoms of the medium through which they pass, in the backward direction
- backscratch — a favour done for someone in return for another
- backseaters — Plural form of backseater.
- backside-to — backend-to.
- backslapped — Simple past tense and past participle of backslap.
- backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
- backslashed — Simple past tense and past participle of backslash.
- backslashes — Plural form of backslash.
- backslidden — Past participle of backslide.
- backsliding — If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.
- backsolving — Present participle of backsolve.
- backspacing — Present participle of backspace.
- backstabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of backstab.
- backstabber — someone who attacks another deceitfully, behind his or her back
- backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
- backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- backstreets — Plural form of backstreet.
- backstretch — the part of a racetrack farthest from the grandstand and opposite and parallel to the homestretch
- backstroker — a person who swims the backstroke, especially a member of a competitive swimming team who specializes in the backstroke.
- backstrokes — Plural form of backstroke.
- backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
- backwashing — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
- bacteriosis — any bacterial disease
- bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
- baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
- badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
- bahia grass — a grass, Paspalum notatum, of tropical America, grown in the southern United States for lawns and pasturage.
- bailiffship — the office of a bailiff
- baitcasting — (angling) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure).
- bake-wares' — heat-resistant dishes, as of glass or pottery, in which food may be baked; ovenware.
- baked beans — Baked beans are dried beans cooked in tomato sauce in Britain or cooked with salt pork in North America. Baked beans are usually sold in cans.
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- baking dish — a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
- baking soda — Baking soda is the same as bicarbonate of soda.
- bal musette — a dance hall in France in which the music is provided by an accordion band.
- balbriggans — underwear made from balbriggan fabric, for example long men's underpants
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- balefulness — The characteristic of being baleful.
- balistraria — (in a medieval fortification) an opening, usually in the form of a cross, through which a crossbow could be fired.
- ball-buster — an arduous, often unpleasant task.