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11-letter words containing w, n, b

  • brown dwarf — a type of celestial body midway in mass between a large planet and a small star
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown flour — wheat flour that uses approximately 85% of the whole grain
  • brown goods — Brown goods are electrical appliances such as televisions and audio equipment. Compare white goods.
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
  • brown paper — a coarse unbleached paper used for wrapping
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • brown pound — the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
  • brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
  • brown swiss — a hardy breed of large, brown dairy cattle, first raised in Switzerland
  • brown toast — toasted wholemeal bread
  • brown trout — a common brownish variety of the trout Salmo trutta that occurs in the rivers of N Europe and has been successfully introduced in North America
  • brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • browned off — If you say that you are browned off, you mean that you are annoyed and depressed.
  • browned-off — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
  • brownnosing — If you accuse someone of brownnosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
  • brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
  • brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • 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.
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
  • button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
  • button-down — A button-down shirt or a shirt with a button-down collar has a button under each end of the collar which you can fasten.
  • cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
  • cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • cotton swab — A cotton swab is the same as a swab.
  • counterblow — a retaliatory blow
  • crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
  • crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
  • crown block — A crown block is a fixed set of sheaves (= pulleys) at the top of a derrick, over which the drilling line is run.
  • crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
  • do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
  • down-ballot — relating to or noting a candidate or political contest that is relatively low-profile and local compared to one listed in a higher place on the ballot: Very popular presidential nominees often cause down-ballot candidates to win.
  • dumbed down — (jargon)   Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
  • elbow joint — the joint between the upper arm and the forearm, formed by the junction of the radius and ulna with the humerus
  • embowelment — a disembowelment
  • embowerment — the act of embowering
  • finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
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