11-letter words containing b, i, n, o
- antijacobin — opposed the political activities of the Jacobins
- antiobesity — reducing or controlling obesity
- antitobacco — opposed to or acting against tobacco smoking
- appointable — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- approbating — Present participle of approbate.
- approbation — Approbation is approval of something or agreement to it.
- arab legion — a police force (1920–56) under British supervision, responsible for keeping order among desert tribesmen in Trans-Jordan.
- arabinoside — a glycoside yielding arabinose when hydrolysed
- arabization — transfer to Arab control
- arbitration — Arbitration is the judging of a dispute between people or groups by someone who is not involved.
- arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
- asciibonics — (chat) (From ASCII and Ebonics) A style of text communication in English which is most common on talk systems such as irc. Its notable characteristics are: Typing all in lowercase (and occasionally all in uppercase). Copious use of abbreviations of the sort "u" for "you" "1" for "one" (and therefore "some1" for "someone", "ne1" for "anyone"), "2" for "to", "r" for "are", etc. A general lack of punctuation, except for strings of question marks and exclamation marks. Common use of the idiom "m or f?", meant to elicit a statement of the listener's gender. Typical extended discourse in ASCIIbonics: "hey wasup ne1 want 2 cyber?" "m or f?" ASCIIbonics is similar to the way B1FF talked, although B1FF used more punctuation (lots more), and used all uppercase, rather than all lowercase. What's more, B1FF was only interested in warez, and so never asked "m or f?". It has been widely observed that some of the purest examples of ASCIIbonics come from non-native speakers of English. The phenomenon of ASCIIbonics predates by several years the use of the word "ASCIIbonics", as the word could only have been coined in or after late 1996, when "Ebonics" was first used in the US media to denote the US English dialects known in the linguistic literature as "Black Vernacular English".
- assiniboine — a river in W Canada, rising in E Saskatchewan and flowing southeast and east to the Red River at Winnipeg. Length: over 860 km (500 miles)
- attribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- baby lotion — a skin lotion for babies
- babylonians — of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
- backflowing — Flowing backwards.
- backing dog — a dog that moves a flock of sheep by jumping on their backs
- backloading — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- backlogging — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- backsolving — Present participle of backsolve.
- bacteriocin — any protein-based toxin given off by bacteria to prevent the growth of related bacteria nearby
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bag of wind — windbag.
- báinín wool — white woollen thread
- baking soda — Baking soda is the same as bicarbonate of soda.
- baldacchino — baldachin
- balloonfish — a porcupinefish, Diodon holacanthus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical waters.
- balloonists — Plural form of balloonist.
- ballyhooing — Present participle of ballyhoo.
- bamboozling — Present participle of bamboozle.
- ban ki-moon — born 1944, South Korean international civil servant; secretary-general of the United Nations from 2007
- bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.
- bar-hopping — Informal. to go to a succession of bars or nightclubs, with a brief stay at each.
- baranovichi — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
- barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
- bargain for — If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.
- baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
- baronetical — pertaining to baronets
- baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
- basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
- basis point — In finance, a basis point is one hundredth of a per cent (.01%).
- bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
- bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
- bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
- be confined — to be undergoing childbirth
- be dirty on — to be offended by or be hostile towards
- be going to — If you say that something is going to happen, you mean that it will happen in the future, usually quite soon.
- bed molding — a molding below a projecting part, esp. between the corona and frieze
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.