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11-letter words containing s

  • bench-press — a weightlifting exercise in which one lies supine on a bench and with both hands pushes a barbell or fixed weight upward from chest level to arm's length and then lowers it back to chest level: usually repeated in sets.
  • benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
  • bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
  • 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.
  • bensenville — a town in NE Illinois.
  • benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
  • bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
  • berkeleyism — any philosophical system or doctrine derived from the views of Bishop Berkeley.
  • berners-lee — Sir Tim. born 1955, British computer scientist who in 1990 created the World Wide Web
  • berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
  • bersagliere — a member of a rifle regiment in the Italian Army
  • berylliosis — a lung disease caused by inhaling beryllium
  • beseemingly — in a manner that is beseeming
  • besiegement — the state of being besieged
  • besiegingly — in an urgent or important manner
  • best effort — (networking)   A classification of low priority network traffic, used especially the Internet. Different kinds of traffic have different priorities. Videoconferencing and other types of real-time communication, for example, require a certain minimum guaranteed bandwidth and latency and so must be given a high priority. Electronic mail, on the other hand, can tolerate an arbitrarily long delay and is classified as a "best-effort" service.
  • best friend — a dearest friend
  • best of all — You use best of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the thing that you prefer or that has most advantages out of all the things you have mentioned.
  • best seller — A best seller is a book of which a lot of copies have been sold.
  • bestridable — capable of being bestridden
  • beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
  • betsiamites — a river in E Quebec, Canada, flowing SE to the St. Lawrence River. 240 miles (386 km) long.
  • betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
  • betweenness — the condition of being between
  • bewhiskered — having whiskers on the cheeks
  • bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)
  • bi-partisan — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
  • bible class — a class, typically one meeting weekly, for Bible study
  • bible story — a story from the Bible
  • biblioclasm — a person who mutilates or destroys books.
  • biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • big bickies — a large sum of money
  • big science — scientific research that requires a large investment of capital
  • big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
  • bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
  • bikini scar — a horizontal scar on the lower abdomen in the area where a bikini would be worn, usually resulting from a Caesarean section.
  • biliousness — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
  • bimetallism — the use of two metals, esp gold and silver, in fixed relative values as the standard of value and currency
  • bimetallist — the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard.
  • 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
  • bindingness — the quality of being binding
  • bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
  • bingo wings — areas of loose or flabby skin on the upper arm, esp in women, which hang down when the arm is extended
  • biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
  • biocoenosis — a diverse community inhabiting a single biotope
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
  • biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
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