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11-letter words containing n, a, m, b

  • augmentable — Capable of being augmented or increased.
  • baby-minder — a person who is paid to look after other people's babies or very young children
  • back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
  • backgammons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backgammon.
  • badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
  • balletomane — a person enthusiastic about the ballet
  • balmain bug — a flattish edible Australian shellfish, Ibacus peronii, similar to the Moreton Bay bug
  • bamboozling — Present participle of bamboozle.
  • ban ki-moon — born 1944, South Korean international civil servant; secretary-general of the United Nations from 2007
  • bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
  • bandmasters — Plural form of bandmaster.
  • banjarmasin — a port in Indonesia, in SW Borneo. Pop: 527 415 (2000)
  • banjermasin — a seaport on the S coast of Borneo, in Indonesia.
  • bantam work — Coromandel work.
  • barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
  • barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
  • barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
  • barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
  • barra mansa — a city in Rio de Janeiro state, SE Brazil.
  • barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
  • barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
  • basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
  • batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
  • 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.
  • baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
  • beni mellal — a city in central Morocco.
  • benjaminite — a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
  • bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
  • betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
  • bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
  • bibliomania — extreme fondness for books
  • bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
  • binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • bismarckian — of, relating to, or resembling Otto von Bismarck, especially in respect to his aggressiveness in politics and diplomacy.
  • bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots
  • black cumin — a Eurasian herb, Nigella sativa, having pungent aromatic seeds used as a spice, but unrelated to cumin.
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
  • blue mantle — one of the four pursuivants of the British College of Arms
  • blue marlin — a large marlin, Makaira nigricans, occurring worldwide in warm and temperate seas, highly prized in sportfishing and as a food fish.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • boatmanship — boatsmanship.
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