11-letter words containing n, o, b, s, e
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- 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
- 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
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- 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
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- bulbousness — the quality of being bulbous
- bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- 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
- bus network — (networking) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by no means — on no account; in no way
- cablevision — cable television.
- carabineros — Plural form of carabinero.
- carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
- castor bean — the seed of this plant
- chessboxing — a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively
- cobblestone — Cobblestones are stones with a rounded upper surface which used to be used for making streets.
- coenobitism — the practice of coenobites
- cognoscible — able to be known or recognized
- collarbones — Plural form of collarbone.
- compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated