11-letter words containing s, t, a, n
- axanthopsia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to yellow.
- babysitting — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- backcasting — Present participle of backcast.
- backlisting — Present participle of backlist.
- baitcasting — (angling) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure).
- balloonists — Plural form of balloonist.
- baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
- banana seat — a narrow, tapered, elongated bicycle seat that curves upward at the rear
- bananaquits — Plural form of bananaquit.
- bandmasters — Plural form of bandmaster.
- banistering — Present participle of banister.
- bannerstone — a North American prehistoric stone implement in the form of a double-edged ax with a notch or hole, possibly for attaching a handle.
- banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
- bárány test — a test which detects diseases of the semicircular canals of the inner ear, devised by Robert Bárány (1876–1936)
- barents sea — a part of the Arctic Ocean, bounded by Norway, Russia, and the islands of Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen, and Franz Josef Land
- barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
- barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
- barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
- barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
- base tenant — a tenant of a base estate.
- basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
- basis point — In finance, a basis point is one hundredth of a per cent (.01%).
- basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
- basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
- bastard son — an illegitimate son
- bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
- bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
- bastnaesite — a rare yellow to reddish-brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of fluorine and several lanthanide metals. It occurs in association with zinc and is a source of the lanthanides. Formula: LaFCO3
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
- batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
- battlements — The battlements of a castle or fortress consist of a wall built round the top, with gaps through which guns or arrows can be fired.
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- belt sander — a sander that uses an endless abrasive belt driven by an electric motor.
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- bi-partisan — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
- binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- bisociation — the association of one idea with two different contexts
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- blank slate — tabula rasa.
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- 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.