11-letter words containing a, l, n
- baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
- baronetical — pertaining to baronets
- barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
- barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
- bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
- basicranial — of or relating to the base of the skull
- batch plant — a manufacturing plant where concrete is mixed before being transported to a construction site ready to be poured.
- battle line — the line along which troops are positioned for battle
- battle plan — the strategy to be used in a military engagement.
- battle zone — an area where a battle or battles are being fought
- battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
- battlements — The battlements of a castle or fortress consist of a wall built round the top, with gaps through which guns or arrows can be fired.
- battleplane — an airplane designed for combat; warplane.
- battlewagon — a battleship
- be laughing — to be in a favourable situation
- bean beetle — any of a number of beetles and weevils attacking legumes, esp. the Mexican bean beetle
- bean weevil — any of various beetles of the family Bruchidae (or Lariidae), the larvae of which live in the seeds of leguminous plants
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- beilan pass — a mountain pass in SE Turkey near Syria. 2395 feet (730 meters).
- belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
- belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- belly dance — a sensuous and provocative dance of Middle Eastern origin, performed by women, with undulating movements of the hips and abdomen
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
- bench lathe — a lathe mounted on a workbench
- bench table — a course of masonry forming a bench at the foot of a wall.
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- bengal rose — China rose (def 1).
- bengal-rose — Also called Bengal rose. a rose, Rosa chinensis, of China, having slightly fragrant crimson, pink, or white flowers.
- beni mellal — a city in central Morocco.
- benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- berlin wall — a wall dividing the east and west sectors of Berlin, built in 1961 by the East German authorities to stop the flow of refugees from east to west; demolition of the wall began in 1989
- bethanechol — a substance, C 7 H 17 ClN 2 O 2 , used to treat urinary retention, especially postoperatively.
- bi-bivalent — separating into two bivalent ions
- bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
- bibliomania — extreme fondness for books
- billionaire — A billionaire is an extremely rich person who has money or property worth at least a thousand million pounds or dollars.
- bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
- binary cell — an electronic element that can assume either of two stable states and is capable of storing a binary digit.
- binary file — (file format) Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- bioregional — relating to a bioregion
- birth canal — the passageway down which the fetus passes during birth
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- black angus — Aberdeen Angus