11-letter words containing ass
- bass guitar — a guitar that has the same pitch and tuning as a double bass, usually electrically amplified
- bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
- bass reflex — a loudspeaker equipped with a baffle having openings designed to improve the reproduction of low-frequency sounds.
- bass strait — a channel between mainland Australia and Tasmania, linking the Indian Ocean and the Tasman Sea
- basse-terre — a mountainous island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands, comprising part of Guadeloupe. Area: 848 sq km (327 sq miles)
- basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
- beach grass — any of a genus (Ammophila) of deeply rooted, tough, perennial grasses that grow on sandy beaches and are often planted to combat beach erosion
- beilan pass — a mountain pass in SE Turkey near Syria. 2395 feet (730 meters).
- bible class — a class, typically one meeting weekly, for Bible study
- blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
- bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
- brass tacks — basic realities; hard facts (esp in the phrase get down to brass tacks)
- brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
- broad glass — cylinder glass.
- buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- cabin class — a class of accommodation on a passenger ship between first class and tourist class
- calico bass — crappie
- camel grass — a grass, Cymbopogon schoenanthus, of southern Asia and northern Africa, having fragrant foliage.
- cameo glass — an ornamental glass in which two layers, often blue and opaque white, have been cased, and on which the design has been treated in the manner of a cameo.
- candy-assed — timid or cowardly; sissified.
- carcassonne — a city in SW France: extensive remains of medieval fortifications. Pop: 48 212 (2006)
- casselberry — a city in central Florida.
- cassia bark — the cinnamon-like bark of this tree, used as a spice
- cassiodorus — Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ˈfleɪvɪəs ˈmæɡnəs ɔːˈriːlɪəs). ?490–?585 ad, Roman statesman, writer, and monk; author of Variae, a collection of official documents written for the Ostrogoths
- cassiterite — a black or brown mineral, found in igneous rocks and hydrothermal veins. It is a source of tin. Composition: tin oxide. Formula: SnO2. Crystal structure: tetragonal
- cassowaries — Plural form of cassowary.
- centre pass — a push or hit made in any direction to start the game or to restart the game after a goal has been scored
- christmassy — Something that is Christmassy is typical of or suitable for Christmas.
- classic car — a car that is more than twenty-five years old
- classic-ada — (language) An object-oriented extension to Ada, said to be like Smalltalk. It is implemented as an Ada preprocessor.
- classically — Someone who has been classically trained in something such as art, music, or ballet has learned the traditional skills and methods of that subject.
- classicisms — Plural form of classicism.
- classicists — Plural form of classicist.
- classicized — Simple past tense and past participle of classicize.
- classifieds — The classifieds are the same as classified ad.
- classifiers — Plural form of classifier.
- classifying — Denoting an adjective that describes the class that a head noun belongs to and characterized by not having a comparative or superlative (for example American, mortal ).
- classloader — (computing, Java) A mechanism for dynamically loading classes into a virtual machine.
- cloud grass — a grass, Agrostis nebulosa, of Spain, having clusters of tiny spikelets on slender stalks, used in bouquets.
- coach class — the US and Canad. name for economy class
- compass saw — a hand saw with a narrow tapered blade for making a curved cut
- compassable — Capable of being compassed or accomplished.
- compassings — contrivances or schemes
- contrabasso — (music) The largest kind of bass viol.
- contrapasso — The concept that the punishment of an individual's soul in Hell corresponds to the sin that person committed on earth.
- couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
- couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- cover glass — a thin square of mounted glass used to protect a photographic slide