11-letter words containing b, n
- 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.
- arab spring — The Arab Spring is a period of time in and around 2011 to 2012 during which people in the Middle East and Africa tried to achieve democratic reforms.
- arabian sea — the NW part of the Indian Ocean, between Arabia and India
- arabinoside — a glycoside yielding arabinose when hydrolysed
- arabization — transfer to Arab control
- arbitrament — the decision or award made by an arbitrator upon a disputed matter
- arbitrating — to decide as arbitrator or arbiter; determine.
- arbitration — Arbitration is the judging of a dispute between people or groups by someone who is not involved.
- arbitrement — the act of arbitrating; arbitration.
- arborescent — having the shape or characteristics of a tree
- arc-boutant — flying buttress.
- arrangeable — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
- arriere-ban — (in medieval France) a summons to the king's vassals to do military service
- 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".
- ashwaubenon — a town in E Wisconsin.
- assemblance — the action or process of gathering or congregating
- assemblyman — In the United States, an assemblyman is an elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
- assemblymen — Plural form of assemblyman.
- 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)
- astrobotany — the branch of botany that investigates the possibility that plants grow on other planets
- at one blow — by or with only one action; all at one time
- attributing — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- attribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- audibleness — The state or quality of being audible.
- augmentable — Capable of being augmented or increased.
- azerbaijani — a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan
- baby lotion — a skin lotion for babies
- baby-minder — a person who is paid to look after other people's babies or very young children
- babyishness — The state or quality of being babyish.
- babylonians — of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
- babysitting — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- bacchanalia — orgiastic rites associated with Bacchus
- back anchor — a small anchor for backing a larger one.
- back and to — back-and-forth; to and fro.
- back burner — If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important.
- back garden — a garden at the rear of a house
- back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
- back-burner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- backbencher — A backbencher is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in their political party.
- backbenches — The backbenches are the seats in the British House of Commons where backbenchers sit. The Members of Parliament who sit on the backbenches are also referred to as the backbenches.
- backcasting — Present participle of backcast.
- backchannel — an unofficial or covert means of conveying information, originally or esp in political or diplomatic circles
- backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
- backfilling — material used for refilling an excavation.
- backflowing — Flowing backwards.
- backgammons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backgammon.
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- backhanders — Plural form of backhander.