11-letter words containing b, o, n, s
- bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
- boston bull — Boston terrier
- boston crab — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler seizes both or one of his opponent's legs, turns him face downwards, and exerts pressure over his back
- boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
- boundedness — the quality of being bounded
- bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- box spanner — a spanner consisting of a steel cylinder with a hexagonal end that fits over a nut: used esp to turn nuts in positions that are recessed or difficult of access
- boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
- boysenberry — a type of bramble: a hybrid of the loganberry and various blackberries and raspberries
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- brent goose — a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- brown goods — Brown goods are electrical appliances such as televisions and audio equipment. Compare white goods.
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
- brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
- brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
- brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
- brown swiss — a hardy breed of large, brown dairy cattle, first raised in Switzerland
- brown toast — toasted wholemeal bread
- brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
- brownnosing — If you accuse someone of brownnosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
- brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- bulbousness — the quality of being bulbous
- bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
- bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- burne-jones — Sir Edward. 1833–98, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer of stained-glass windows and tapestries
- burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
- burrowstown — a burgh town
- 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.
- bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by no means — on no account; in no way
- cablevision — cable television.
- cannonballs — Plural form of cannonball.
- carabineros — Plural form of carabinero.
- carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
- carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
- castor bean — the seed of this plant