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11-letter words containing b, a, w

  • misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
  • narrow boat — A narrow boat is a long, low boat used on canals.
  • narrowboats — Plural form of narrowboat.
  • new britain — the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, in the W central Pacific Ocean. About 14,600 sq. mi. (37,814 sq. km). Capital: Rabaul.
  • nonwashable — Not washable.
  • ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
  • pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
  • power brand — a brand of product that is a household name associated with a successful company
  • power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
  • powerboater — a powerboat owner or operator.
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • rowing boat — rowboat.
  • safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
  • saginaw bay — an arm of Lake Huron, off the E coast of Michigan. 60 miles (97 km) long.
  • saul bellowSaul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
  • seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
  • snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
  • snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
  • snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
  • swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
  • swallowable — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
  • swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
  • swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
  • swamp buggy — an amphibious vehicle for use in and around swamps, typically having an automobile engine, four-wheel drive, large wheels with deep treads, and a raised chassis.
  • swansea bay — an inlet of the Bristol Channel, on which the port of Swansea stands
  • swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
  • sweet basil — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Ocimum, of the mint family, as O. basilicum (sweet basil) having purplish-green ovate leaves used in cooking.
  • sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • swordbearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
  • the beltway — Washington, D.C., esp. as regarded as the center of U.S. government and politics: so called from the expressway around the District of Columbia & nearby areas
  • throw about — to spend (one's money) in a reckless and flaunting manner
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
  • trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
  • unallowable — not allowable; unacceptable or inadmissible
  • unrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • unwatchable — detectable; apparent.
  • unweariable — incapable of wearying or being wearied; tireless
  • unweariably — in an unweariable manner
  • unwedgeable — unable to be split or divided by wedges
  • unwoundable — incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed
  • wacky baccy — cannabis or marijuana
  • wading bird — wader (def 2).
  • waffle slab — a reinforced-concrete floor and roof construction employing a square grid of deep ribs with coffers in the interstices.
  • wakeboarder — someone who rides a wakeboard
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