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11-letter words containing s, t, a, n

  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • 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
  • brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
  • brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • bratticings — a series of temporary wooden housings erected on top of a wall, esp a castle wall
  • brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
  • breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
  • brown toast — toasted wholemeal bread
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • burnt sugar — caramel
  • bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
  • byzantinism — caesaropapism, especially before the Great Schism of 1054.
  • byzantinist — an authority on or student of the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire.
  • cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • calc-sinter — travertine
  • calendarist — a person who calendarizes
  • calisthenic — Of, or relating to calisthenics.
  • callanetics — a system of exercise involving frequent repetition of small muscular movements and squeezes, designed to improve muscle tone
  • calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
  • calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
  • campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
  • campo santo — a cemetery
  • can't stand — find intolerable
  • candlestand — a slender stand or table, often with a tripod base, for holding a candlestick or candelabrum.
  • candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
  • candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
  • canisterise — to put into canisters
  • canisterize — to put into canisters
  • cannon-shot — the range of a cannon
  • cannot seem — If you say that you cannot seem or could not seem to do something, you mean that you have tried to do it and were unable to.
  • canophilist — a person who loves dogs
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
  • cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
  • cantonments — Plural form of cantonment.
  • capitations — Plural form of capitation.
  • capri pants — women's tight-fitting trousers
  • capstan bar — a lever, often wooden, for turning a capstan
  • capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
  • captainship — captaincy.
  • captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
  • cargo pants — Cargo pants are large, loose pants with lots of pockets.
  • carillonist — a carillonneur
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