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11-letter words containing b, e, n, w

  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
  • cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • counterblow — a retaliatory blow
  • crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
  • crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
  • dumbed down — (jargon)   Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
  • elbow joint — the joint between the upper arm and the forearm, formed by the junction of the radius and ulna with the humerus
  • embowelment — a disembowelment
  • embowerment — the act of embowering
  • finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
  • furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
  • gobble down — eat hungrily
  • hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
  • hereinbelow — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
  • in bed with — in collusion with
  • jew-baiting — active anti-Semitism.
  • know better — be sufficiently wise
  • lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
  • lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
  • marrow bean — a plump-seeded strain of the common field bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), grown for its dry, edible seeds
  • marrow bone — Marrow bones are the bones of certain animals, especially cows, that contain a lot of bone marrow. They are used in cooking and in dog food.
  • marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
  • mind-blower — a hallucinogenic drug.
  • new bedford — a seaport in SE Massachusetts: formerly a chief whaling port.
  • new biology — the branch of biology that deals with the nature of biological phenomena at the molecular level through the study of DNA and RNA, proteins, and other macromolecules involved in genetic information and cell function, characteristically making use of advanced tools and techniques of separation, manipulation, imaging, and analysis.
  • 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.
  • newburyport — a city in NE Massachusetts.
  • nonwashable — Not washable.
  • number work — simple arithmetic and similar mathematical procedures as used and studied at primary level
  • olive brown — a dull yellowish-brown to yellowish-green colour
  • ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
  • overblowing — A technique for playing a wind instrument so as to produce overtones.
  • powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
  • power brand — a brand of product that is a household name associated with a successful company
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • robert owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
  • snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
  • snow blower — a motor-driven machine on wheels used to remove snow by throwing it into the air and to one side.
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
  • spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
  • swansea bay — an inlet of the Bristol Channel, on which the port of Swansea stands
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
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