13-letter words containing b, a, n, s
- equitableness — The state or quality of being equitable; equitability.
- establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
- estimableness — The quality of deserving esteem or regard.
- ethnobotanist — A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany.
- exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
- excitableness — The quality of being excitable, excitability.
- excusableness — The quality of being excusable.
- expansibility — The condition of being expansible.
- fantabulously — In a fantabulous manner; fantastically, wonderfully.
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
- febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
- first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
- fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
- francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
- full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
- garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
- generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- glass-blowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- globalisation — internationalisation
- gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
- guinea-bissau — a republic on the W coast of Africa, between Guinea and Senegal: formerly a Portuguese overseas province; gained independence in 1974. 13,948 sq. mi. (36,125 sq. km). Capital: Bissau.
- hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- honorableness — The property of being honorable.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- househusbands — Plural form of househusband.
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- illiberalness — The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
- immovableness — The quality of being immovable.
- immutableness — The state of being immutable; unchangeableness.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- in sb's favor — If someone makes a judgment in your favor, they say that you are right about something.
- in sb's place — If you say what you would have done in someone else's place, you say what you would have done if you had been in their situation and had been experiencing what they were experiencing.
- in sb's stead — If you do something in someone's stead, you replace them and do it instead of them.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inassimilable — That cannot be assimilated.