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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
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