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11-letter words containing a, b

  • bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
  • bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
  • bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
  • bowling bag — a bag for carrying a bowling ball and often bowling shoes or other equipment.
  • 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
  • boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
  • boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
  • brace table — a table giving the lengths of the hypotenuses of right isosceles triangles of varying sizes: used especially for calculating the lengths of diagonal braces.
  • braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
  • brachialgia — pain in the nerves of the upper arm.
  • brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
  • brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
  • brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
  • bracteolate — having bractlets
  • bradycardia — an abnormally low rate of heartbeat
  • bradycardic — a slow heartbeat rate, usually less than 60 beats per minute.
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • bragg's law — the principle that when a beam of X-rays of wavelength λ enters a crystal, the maximum intensity of the reflected ray occurs when sin θ = nλ/2d, where θ is the complement of the angle of incidence, n is a whole number, and d is the distance between layers of atoms
  • braggadocio — vain empty boasting
  • braggartism — the activity of a braggart
  • brahmachari — a student of the Vedas, especially one committed to brahmacharya.
  • brahmajnana — jnana.
  • brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
  • brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
  • brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
  • brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
  • brain coral — a stony coral of the genus Meandrina, in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • brain drain — When people talk about a brain drain, they are referring to the movement of a large number of scientists or academics away from their own country to other countries where the conditions and salaries are better.
  • brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
  • brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
  • brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • brake block — the part of the brake in a train or on a bicycle that is applied to the wheel to slow the vehicle down or stop it
  • brake cable — a cable that connects a brake handle, pedal, or lever to a vehicle's braking mechanism
  • brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
  • brake lever — (on a bicycle) a lever on the handlebar that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
  • brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
  • brake pedal — (in a vehicle) a pedal that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
  • brake servo — The brake servo is a device for increasing the pressure of the driver's foot on the brake pedal.
  • brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
  • bram stokerBram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
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