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11-letter words containing s, o, r, n

  • bengal rose — China rose (def 1).
  • bengal-rose — Also called Bengal rose. a rose, Rosa chinensis, of China, having slightly fragrant crimson, pink, or white flowers.
  • berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
  • bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
  • bladdernose — hooded seal
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
  • bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
  • boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
  • boss around — order about
  • 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 crab — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler seizes both or one of his opponent's legs, turns him face downwards, and exerts pressure over his back
  • boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
  • bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
  • 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
  • boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
  • 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 goods — Brown goods are electrical appliances such as televisions and audio equipment. Compare white goods.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
  • brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
  • brown swiss — a hardy breed of large, brown dairy cattle, first raised in Switzerland
  • brown toast — toasted wholemeal bread
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • brownnosing — If you accuse someone of brownnosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
  • brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
  • brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • 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
  • burrowstown — a burgh town
  • 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.
  • button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
  • campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
  • cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
  • candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
  • canis major — a constellation in the S hemisphere close to Orion, containing Sirius, the brightest star in the sky
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