11-letter words containing b, a, n, s
- dustbin man — (in British English) a man that is employed to collect domestic refuse
- east bengal — formerly a part of the Indian province of Bengal; now coextensive with Bangladesh. Compare Bengal (def 1).
- east berlin — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- east punjab — the eastern part of the former province of Punjab, in British India: now part of Punjab state, India.
- embankments — Plural form of embankment.
- embarassing — Misspelling of embarrassing.
- embarkments — Plural form of embarkment.
- embarrasing — Misspelling of embarrassing.
- enjambments — Plural form of enjambment.
- equableness — The state or quality of being equable.
- expandables — Plural form of expandable.
- expendables — Plural form of expendable.
- fantabulous — extremely fine or desirable; excellent; wonderful.
- fashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fashionably — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fissionable — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- friableness — The state or quality of being friable; friability.
- funambulism — The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- gangbangers — Plural form of gangbanger.
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gangbusting — the activity of a gangbuster
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- gauge boson — a boson that mediates the interaction between elementary particles. There are several types: photons for electromagnetic interactions, W and Z intermediate vector bosons for weak interactions, and gravitons for gravitational interactions
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- grand banks — an extensive shoal SE of Newfoundland: fishing grounds. 350 miles (565 km) long; 40,000 sq. mi. (104,000 sq. km).
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
- green beans — the narrow green edible pods of a green bean plant
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
- habitations — Plural form of habitation.
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- hash browns — fried potato cake
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.