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11-letter words containing a, n, t, b

  • badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
  • bail bandit — a person who either commits a crime while on bail or who jumps bail and fails to appear in court
  • 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).
  • baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
  • balance out — If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
  • balletomane — a person enthusiastic about the ballet
  • balloonists — Plural form of balloonist.
  • baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
  • banana belt — a region with a warm climate, esp one in Canada
  • banana boat — a refrigerated ship used for transporting bananas
  • banana seat — a narrow, tapered, elongated bicycle seat that curves upward at the rear
  • bananaquits — Plural form of bananaquit.
  • band theory — a theory of the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators based on energy bands
  • bandeirante — a 16th–18th-century Portugese explorer in South America motivated by profit, known for hunting down natives for slaves as well as for locating mines of precious stones and metals
  • bandmasters — Plural form of bandmaster.
  • bandy about — If someone's name or something such as an idea is bandied about or is bandied around, that person or that thing is discussed by many people in a casual way.
  • banistering — Present participle of banister.
  • bankability — acceptable for processing by a bank: bankable checks and money orders.
  • bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
  • bannerstone — a North American prehistoric stone implement in the form of a double-edged ax with a notch or hole, possibly for attaching a handle.
  • banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
  • bantam work — Coromandel work.
  • banteringly — in a bantering fashion
  • banyan-tree — Also called banyan tree. an East Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, of the mulberry family, having branches that send out adventitious roots to the ground and sometimes cause the tree to spread over a wide area.
  • bárány test — a test which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear, devised by Robert Bárány (1876–1936)
  • barents sea — a part of the Arctic Ocean, bounded by Norway, Russia, and the islands of Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen, and Franz Josef Land
  • barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
  • barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
  • barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
  • 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).
  • barquentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
  • barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
  • barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
  • barycentric — Of or relating to the center of gravity.
  • base tenant — a tenant of a base estate.
  • basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
  • basis point — In finance, a basis point is one hundredth of a per cent (.01%).
  • basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
  • basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
  • bastard son — an illegitimate son
  • bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
  • bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
  • bastnaesite — a rare yellow to reddish-brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of fluorine and several lanthanide metals. It occurs in association with zinc and is a source of the lanthanides. Formula: LaFCO3
  • batch plant — a manufacturing plant where concrete is mixed before being transported to a construction site ready to be poured.
  • bateau neck — boat neck.
  • bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
  • bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
  • bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
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