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11-letter words containing n, e, s

  • bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
  • bonus issue — an issue of shares made by a company without charge and distributed pro rata among existing shareholders
  • bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
  • bookselling — the activity of selling books
  • boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
  • boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
  • boss screen — a screen image within a computer game that can be activated instantly, designed to hide the evidence of game-playing, esp at work
  • boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
  • boundedness — the quality of being bounded
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • box spanner — a spanner consisting of a steel cylinder with a hexagonal end that fits over a nut: used esp to turn nuts in positions that are recessed or difficult of access
  • boysenberry — a type of bramble: a hybrid of the loganberry and various blackberries and raspberries
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • break ranks — to fall out of line, esp when under attack
  • 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.
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • brent goose — a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions
  • brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
  • brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • bristliness — the quality of being bristly
  • brittleness — the quality of being brittle
  • bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
  • brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
  • brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
  • brusqueness — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
  • bss segment — Block Started by Symbol
  • buckskinned — made of buckskin
  • buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
  • buenos dias — good day; good morning
  • bulbousness — the quality of being bulbous
  • bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • bunyanesque — of immense size or stature, as ascribed to Paul Bunyan or to the other characters, exploits, etc., in the legends about him.
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • burne-jones — Sir Edward. 1833–98, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer of stained-glass windows and tapestries
  • burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
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