12-letter words containing b, e, n, w
- downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- edwin hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
- fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
- in sb's wake — If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.
- in-betweener — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- know by name — to have heard of without having met
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- mean well by — to have good intentions or friendly, helpful feelings toward
- microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- new business — New business is the number of new policies that are written by an insurance company in a particular period.
- new hebrides — former name of Vanuatu.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- newtownabbey — a town in Northern Ireland, in Newtownabbey district, Co Antrim on Belfast Lough: the third largest town in Northern Ireland, formed in 1958 by the amalgamation of seven villages; light industrial centre, esp for textiles. Pop: 62 056 (2001)
- nigger brown — a dark brown colour
- nonrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- on a bowline — beating close to the wind
- pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
- powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
- sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- sewn binding — a style of binding where the backs of the gathered sections are sewn together before being inserted into a cover
- swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
- tennis elbow — irritation of the synovial membrane, or joint rotary area, of the elbow, caused by immoderate motions while playing tennis or other sports; epicondylitis.
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- to know best — If you say that a particular person knows best, you mean that they have a lot of experience and should therefore be trusted to make decisions for other people.
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- unanswerable — not capable of being answered; not having a known or discoverable answer: an unanswerable question.
- unfollowable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- unreviewable — a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
- unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
- wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
- walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- web designer — a person who plans, designs, creates, and often maintains websites.
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- wedding band — A wedding band is the same as a wedding ring.