11-letter words containing a, n
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
- bunya-bunya — a tall dome-shaped Australian coniferous tree, Araucaria bidwillii, having edible cones (bunya nuts) and thickish flattened needles
- bunyanesque — of immense size or stature, as ascribed to Paul Bunyan or to the other characters, exploits, etc., in the legends about him.
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- burnt sugar — caramel
- bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
- bushbashing — the process of forcing a path through the bush
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- bushranging — the life of a bushranger
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- businessman — A businessman is a man who works in business.
- busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
- but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
- buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by no means — on no account; in no way
- byzantinism — caesaropapism, especially before the Great Schism of 1054.
- byzantinist — an authority on or student of the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire.
- cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
- cabin class — a class of accommodation on a passenger ship between first class and tourist class
- cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
- cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
- cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
- cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- cablevision — cable television.
- cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
- cachinnator — One who laughs loudly and immoderately.
- cack-handed — If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way.
- cacodemonic — relating to cacodemons
- cacogenesis — (medicine) A morbid, monstrous, or pathological growth or product; an abnormality in structure; a monstrosity.
- cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
- cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
- cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- caddishness — the state of being caddish
- caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
- caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
- caffeinated — with no natural caffeine removed
- cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
- caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.
- cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.