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11-letter words containing s, w, b

  • brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
  • bulbous bow — a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of a ship to reduce turbulence
  • bull's wool — nonsense
  • 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.
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • cotton swab — A cotton swab is the same as a swab.
  • crewmembers — Plural form of crewmember.
  • crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
  • crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
  • crowberries — Plural form of crowberry.
  • cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
  • disavowable — capable of being disavowed
  • disbowelled — disembowelled
  • disembowels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembowel.
  • doublewides — Plural form of doublewide.
  • drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
  • dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
  • dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
  • eyebrowless — having no eyebrows
  • fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
  • handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
  • hash browns — fried potato cake
  • hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
  • highbrowism — Highbrow attitudes and policies generally.
  • ida b wellsHenry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
  • jawbreakers — Plural form of jawbreaker.
  • lamb's wool — a soft, virgin wool possessing superior spinning qualities, shorn from a seven-month-old lamb.
  • lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
  • lewy bodies — abnormal proteins that occur in the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, causing Parkinson's disease and dementia
  • ludwigsburg — a city in Baden-Württemberg state, SW Germany.
  • marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
  • middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
  • misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
  • mouse elbow — (jargon, medical)   A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP. Similarly, "mouse shoulder". GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself to be ambimoustrous.
  • narrowboats — Plural form of narrowboat.
  • nonwashable — Not washable.
  • objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
  • ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
  • ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
  • oxbow chest — a chest of drawers having a front convex at the sides and concave in the center without vertical divisions.
  • safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
  • saginaw bay — an arm of Lake Huron, off the E coast of Michigan. 60 miles (97 km) long.
  • saul bellowSaul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
  • seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
  • snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
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