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11-letter words containing e, n, a

  • bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
  • basin range — a mountain range of the type found in the Great Basin region of the western U.S., typically long and narrow and characterized by faulted, tilted blocks of strata.
  • basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
  • basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
  • basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
  • bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
  • bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
  • bastnaesite — a rare yellow to reddish-brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of fluorine and several lanthanide metals. It occurs in association with zinc and is a source of the lanthanides. Formula: LaFCO3
  • bateau neck — boat neck.
  • bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
  • baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
  • batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
  • battery hen — a hen kept in a battery
  • batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
  • battle line — the line along which troops are positioned for battle
  • battle plan — the strategy to be used in a military engagement.
  • battle zone — an area where a battle or battles are being fought
  • battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
  • battlements — The battlements of a castle or fortress consist of a wall built round the top, with gaps through which guns or arrows can be fired.
  • battleplane — an airplane designed for combat; warplane.
  • battlewagon — a battleship
  • baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
  • bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
  • bcg vaccine — a vaccine made from weakened strains of tubercle bacilli, used to produce immunity against tuberculosis.
  • be death on — to deal with in a devastating manner
  • 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.
  • 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.
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