11-letter words containing b, n
- bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
- bbc english — Received Pronunciation.
- bcg vaccine — a vaccine made from weakened strains of tubercle bacilli, used to produce immunity against tuberculosis.
- be confined — to be undergoing childbirth
- be death on — to deal with in a devastating manner
- 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.
- be great on — to be informed about
- be laughing — to be in a favourable situation
- be made one — (of a man and a woman) to become married
- be meant to — If you say that something is meant to happen, you mean that it is expected to happen or that it ought to happen.
- be quids in — If you are quids in, you have more money left than you expected or get more for your money than you expected.
- be revenged — to get revenge
- be sweet on — to be in love with
- beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
- beam engine — an early type of steam engine, in which a pivoted beam is vibrated by a vertical steam cylinder at one end, so that it transmits motion to the workload, such as a pump, at the other end
- beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
- beam weapon — a laser-beam or particle-beam weapon.
- bean beetle — any of a number of beetles and weevils attacking legumes, esp. the Mexican bean beetle
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- bean weevil — any of various beetles of the family Bruchidae (or Lariidae), the larvae of which live in the seeds of leguminous plants
- beanbag gun — a gun that fires a fabric bag containing lead shot, designed to stun or knock the target to the ground
- beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- bear a hand — to give assistance
- bear garden — (formerly) a place where bears were exhibited and where bear-baiting took place
- bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
- beardedness — the quality of having a beard, the quality of being bearded
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- bearer bond — a bond payable to the person in possession
- bearing cap — A bearing cap is a rigid, semi-circular part that fits around one half of a bearing and secures it.
- bearishness — The characteristic of being bearish.
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- beckenbauer — Franz. born 1945, German footballer: team captain when West Germany won the World Cup (1974): manager of West Germany (1984–90), coaching the team to success in the 1990 World Cup
- becket bend — sheet bend
- bed and pep — (of a stock-exchange transaction) complying with regulations for self-select PEPs, a shareholding being sold in the evening and bought back the next morning for the shareholder's own PEP
- bed molding — a molding below a projecting part, esp. between the corona and frieze
- bed-wetting — the act or habit of involuntarily urinating in bed
- bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- bedding out — the process of planting out young flowering plants in beds
- bedevilling — (British) present participle of bedevil.
- bedevilment — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- bedizenment — That which bedizens.
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- bee's knees — an excellent or ideally suitable person or thing
- been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.