11-letter words containing b, w
- bull's wool — nonsense
- bullet wood — the wood of a bully tree.
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
- 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.
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
- button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
- button-down — A button-down shirt or a shirt with a button-down collar has a button under each end of the collar which you can fasten.
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
- cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
- cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
- cotton swab — A cotton swab is the same as a swab.
- counterblow — a retaliatory blow
- cowboy boot — a boot having a thick, angled heel of medium height and, usually, a pointed toe and ornamental stitching, tooling, etc.: traditionally worn by American cowboys
- crewmembers — Plural form of crewmember.
- crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
- crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
- crowberries — Plural form of crowberry.
- crown block — A crown block is a fixed set of sheaves (= pulleys) at the top of a derrick, over which the drilling line is run.
- crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
- cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- deal a blow — If an event deals a blow to something or someone, it causes them great difficulties or makes failure more likely.
- disavowable — capable of being disavowed
- disbowelled — disembowelled
- disembowels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembowel.
- do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
- dobby weave — a weave with small, geometric patterns
- double whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- double-wide — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- doublewides — Plural form of doublewide.
- down-ballot — relating to or noting a candidate or political contest that is relatively low-profile and local compared to one listed in a higher place on the ballot: Very popular presidential nominees often cause down-ballot candidates to win.
- drawability — the degree to which a metal can be drawn.
- drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dumbed down — (jargon) Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- elbow joint — the joint between the upper arm and the forearm, formed by the junction of the radius and ulna with the humerus
- embowelment — a disembowelment
- embowerment — the act of embowering