11-letter words containing i, s, t, a, n, b
- bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
- bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
- 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.
- 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
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
- byzantinism — caesaropapism, especially before the Great Schism of 1054.
- byzantinist — an authority on or student of the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire.
- catch basin — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
- client base — A business's client base is the same as its customer base.
- cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
- cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- combinators — Plural form of combinator.
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- demibastion — half a bastion, having only one flank, at right angles to the wall
- disablement — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disbandment — to break up or dissolve (an organization): They disbanded the corporation.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- dustbin man — (in British English) a man that is employed to collect domestic refuse
- east berlin — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- gangbusting — the activity of a gangbuster
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
- habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
- habitations — Plural form of habitation.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- hit batsman — a batter who, having been struck by a pitch, is awarded first base.
- in absentia — in the absence of the person involved: He was sentenced in absentia by the court.
- in-satiable — not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased: insatiable hunger for knowledge.
- inabilities — Plural form of inability.
- incubations — Plural form of incubation.
- inestimable — incapable of being estimated or assessed.
- inestimably — In an inestimable manner.
- inevitables — Plural form of inevitable.
- inflatables — Plural form of inflatable.
- inhabitants — a person or animal that inhabits a place, especially as a permanent resident.
- inhabitress — a female inhabitant
- inobservant — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- insalubrity — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- inscrutably — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- inspectable — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.