11-letter words containing t, a, i, n, s
- 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.
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- 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.
- 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.
- campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
- candlestick — A candlestick is a narrow object with a hole at the top which holds a candle.
- canisterise — to put into canisters
- canisterize — to put into canisters
- canophilist — a person who loves dogs
- 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.
- capitations — Plural form of capitation.
- capri pants — women's tight-fitting trousers
- capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
- captainship — captaincy.
- captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
- carillonist — a carillonneur
- carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
- carotenoids — Plural form of carotenoid.
- carpathians — a mountain range in central Europe, extending from N Slovakia to central Romania. Highest peak, Gerlachovka, 8737 feet (2663 meters).
- carson city — a city in W Nevada, capital of the state. Pop: 55 311 (2003 est)
- cartoonists — Plural form of cartoonist.
- cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
- castanetist — One who plays the castanet.
- castigating — Present participle of castigate.
- castigation — to criticize or reprimand severely.
- castiglione — Count Baldassare (baldasˈsaːre). 1478–1529, Italian diplomat and writer, noted particularly for his dialogue on ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Courtier) (1528)
- casting rod — a fishing rod, generally 4–8 feet (1.2–2.4 meters) long, for casting bait or lures with a reel mounted near the handle that enables the thumb or finger to control the line during a cast, including rods used for bait casting and spinning.
- castrations — Plural form of castration.
- catagenesis — the retrogressive evolution of a species. Compare anagenesis (def 1).
- cataphonics — catacoustics
- catarrhines — Plural form of catarrhine.
- catch basin — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
- catechising — Present participle of catechise.
- catonsville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- cattishness — The property of being cattish.
- causational — the action of causing or producing.
- causticness — The state or quality of being caustic.
- cenesthesia — the mass of undifferentiated sensations that make one aware of the body and its condition, as in the feeling of well-being or illness
- centenaries — Plural form of centenary.