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

  • antiobesity — reducing or controlling obesity
  • antisubsidy — opposed to or acting against subsidization
  • arab spring — The Arab Spring is a period of time in and around 2011 to 2012 during which people in the Middle East and Africa tried to achieve democratic reforms.
  • arabian sea — the NW part of the Indian Ocean, between Arabia and India
  • arabinoside — a glycoside yielding arabinose when hydrolysed
  • arborescent — having the shape or characteristics of a tree
  • arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
  • asciibonics — (chat)   (From ASCII and Ebonics) A style of text communication in English which is most common on talk systems such as irc. Its notable characteristics are: Typing all in lowercase (and occasionally all in uppercase). Copious use of abbreviations of the sort "u" for "you" "1" for "one" (and therefore "some1" for "someone", "ne1" for "anyone"), "2" for "to", "r" for "are", etc. A general lack of punctuation, except for strings of question marks and exclamation marks. Common use of the idiom "m or f?", meant to elicit a statement of the listener's gender. Typical extended discourse in ASCIIbonics: "hey wasup ne1 want 2 cyber?" "m or f?" ASCIIbonics is similar to the way B1FF talked, although B1FF used more punctuation (lots more), and used all uppercase, rather than all lowercase. What's more, B1FF was only interested in warez, and so never asked "m or f?". It has been widely observed that some of the purest examples of ASCIIbonics come from non-native speakers of English. The phenomenon of ASCIIbonics predates by several years the use of the word "ASCIIbonics", as the word could only have been coined in or after late 1996, when "Ebonics" was first used in the US media to denote the US English dialects known in the linguistic literature as "Black Vernacular English".
  • ashwaubenon — a town in E Wisconsin.
  • assemblance — the action or process of gathering or congregating
  • assemblyman — In the United States, an assemblyman is an elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
  • assemblymen — Plural form of assemblyman.
  • assiniboine — a river in W Canada, rising in E Saskatchewan and flowing southeast and east to the Red River at Winnipeg. Length: over 860 km (500 miles)
  • astrobotany — the branch of botany that investigates the possibility that plants grow on other planets
  • audibleness — The state or quality of being audible.
  • babyishness — The state or quality of being babyish.
  • babylonians — of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
  • babysitting — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
  • backbenches — The backbenches are the seats in the British House of Commons where backbenchers sit. The Members of Parliament who sit on the backbenches are also referred to as the backbenches.
  • backcasting — Present participle of backcast.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • backwashing — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • baking dish — a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
  • baking soda — Baking soda is the same as bicarbonate of soda.
  • balbriggans — underwear made from balbriggan fabric, for example long men's underpants
  • balefulness — The characteristic of being baleful.
  • balloonfish — a porcupinefish, Diodon holacanthus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical waters.
  • balloonists — Plural form of balloonist.
  • baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
  • banana seat — a narrow, tapered, elongated bicycle seat that curves upward at the rear
  • banana skin — The thick yellow or green covering of a banana is called a banana skin.
  • banana slug — a large, bright yellow, slimy, shell-less mollusk, Ariolimax columbianus, of the northwestern forests of North America: the second largest slug in the world.
  • bananaquits — Plural form of bananaquit.
  • bancassurer — a bank that sells insurance products
  • banderillas — Plural form of banderilla.
  • bandleaders — Plural form of bandleader.
  • bandmasters — Plural form of bandmaster.
  • baneberries — Plural form of baneberry.
  • banefulness — The state or quality of being baneful.
  • bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
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