12-letter words containing o, s, n, a, b
- base station — a fixed transmitter that forms part of an otherwise mobile radio network
- basification — the process of making something alkaline
- basing point — a geographical location from which freight charges are computed by the seller regardless of the point from which the goods are shipped.
- basset hound — A basset hound is a dog with short strong legs, a long body, and long ears. It is kept as a pet or used for hunting.
- bastinadoing — Present participle of bastinado.
- battlefronts — Plural form of battlefront.
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
- beaconsfield — a town in SE England, in Buckinghamshire. Pop: 12 292 (2001)
- bean sprouts — the sprouts of newly germinated mung beans, eaten as a vegetable, esp in Chinese dishes
- bean-shooter — peashooter.
- beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
- beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
- bed of nails — a situation or position of extreme difficulty
- beta orionis — Rigel
- beta version — beta testing
- bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
- bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
- biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
- blanket toss — a game in which a person is repeatedly tossed into the air and caught on an open blanket by a group of people who hold the blanket at its edges and stretch and relax it for each toss and catch.
- blastulation — the process of blastula formation
- block island — an island off the coast of and a part of Rhode Island, at the E entrance to Long Island Sound.
- block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
- blood 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)
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- boardsailing — windsurfing
- boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- brisbane box — a broad-leaved evergreen tree, Tristania conferta, native to Australia, having a deciduous outer bark.
- broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
- bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
- brontosaurus — any very large herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus, common in North America during Jurassic times, having a long neck and long tail: suborder Sauropoda (sauropods)
- brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
- buenos aires — the capital of Argentina, a major port and industrial city on the Río de la Plata estuary: became capital in 1880; university (1821). Pop: 13 349 000 (2005 est)
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
- by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
- camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
- cannabinoids — Plural form of cannabinoid.