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11-letter words containing i, n, b

  • bound up in — If something is bound up in a particular form or place, it is fixed in that form or contained in that place.
  • bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
  • bourgeoning — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
  • bourguignon — a sauce made with red wine, onions, and seasoning
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
  • bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
  • bowling bag — a bag for carrying a bowling ball and often bowling shoes or other equipment.
  • box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
  • box-ticking — the process of satisfying bureaucratic administrative requirements rather than assessing the actual merit of something
  • boxing ring — A boxing ring is a raised square platform with ropes around it in which boxers fight.
  • brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
  • brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
  • brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
  • brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance
  • brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
  • brain coral — a stony coral of the genus Meandrina, in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • brain drain — When people talk about a brain drain, they are referring to the movement of a large number of scientists or academics away from their own country to other countries where the conditions and salaries are better.
  • brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
  • brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
  • brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
  • branchiform — shaped like a gill.
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
  • brandy mint — peppermint.
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • bratticings — a series of temporary wooden housings erected on top of a wall, esp a castle wall
  • brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
  • bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
  • breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
  • break in on — to intrude on
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
  • breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • breunnerite — an iron-containing type of magnesite used in the manufacture of refractory bricks
  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • brickmaking — the activity of making bricks
  • bridal gown — a wedding dress
  • bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • brilliantly — shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrous: the brilliant lights of the city.
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