10-letter words containing ban
- banqueting — A banqueting hall or room is a large room where banquets are held.
- banquettes — Plural form of banquette.
- bantingism — a fat-reducing diet invented by William Banting, involving high protein intake, and low fat and carbohydrate intake
- bantu beer — a malted drink made from partly fermented and germinated millet
- bantustans — Plural form of bantustan.
- biobanking — the practice of creating large-scale repositories of human biological material (eg blood, urine, tissue samples, DNA, etc) designed to further medical research
- blood bank — A blood bank is a place where blood which has been taken from blood donors is stored until it is needed for people in hospital.
- blues band — a band that plays the blues
- brake band — a strip of fabric, leather, or metal tightened around a pulley or shaft to act as a brake
- brass band — A brass band is a band that is made up of brass and percussion instruments.
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- cabanatuan — city in SC Luzon, in the Philippines: pop. 173,000
- carbanions — Plural form of carbanion.
- charabancs — Plural form of charabanc.
- contraband — Contraband refers to goods that are taken into or out of a country illegally.
- corybantic — frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- crossbands — Plural form of crossband.
- cuban heel — a moderately high heel for a shoe or boot
- dance band — a band of musicians playing music for dancing
- deurbanize — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- disbanding — Present participle of disband.
- disturbant — having a disturbing effect, disquieting
- embankment — A wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.
- ex-husband — man: former spouse
- exurbanite — A person who lives in an exurb.
- fingerbang — (vulgar) To insert one or more digits into another person's vagina or anus for sexual pleasure.
- gangbanger — a member of a violent street gang.
- greaseband — a band of greasy or sticky material wrapped around a tree trunk in order to prevent insects from ascending the tree
- guard band — an unassigned range of radio frequencies either just above or just below the band of frequencies required for the signal transmitted by a broadcasting station. It helps to prevent interference in receivers between signals from different stations.
- headbanged — Simple past tense and past participle of headbang.
- headbanger — metalhead.
- hu yaobang — 1915–89, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 1981–87.
- husbandage — the fees and commissions of a ship's manager.
- husbanding — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbandman — a farmer.
- husbandmen — Plural form of husbandman.
- import ban — a ban on the importation of certain products from a certain country into the home country
- indie band — an independent band
- interabang — a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
- interurban — of, located in, or operating between two or more cities or towns.
- intraurban — Within an urban area.
- inurbanity — Lack of urbanity or courtesy; bad manners.
- maasbanker — (South Africa) A species of edible mackerel, Trachurus trachurus.
- monzambano — Severinus de [German zey-vey-ree-noo s de] /German ˌzeɪ veɪˈri nʊs dɛ/ (Show IPA) pseudonym of Samuel von Pufendorf.
- mossbanker — A fish, the menhaden.
- mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
- narrowband — Of or involving signals over a narrow range of frequencies.
- new albany — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- nonbanking — (finance) Outside of banking.