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11-letter words containing ban

  • blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
  • bottle bank — A bottle bank is a large container into which people can put empty bottles so that the glass can be used again.
  • char-a-banc — a large bus used on sightseeing tours, especially one with open sides and no center aisle.
  • contrabands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contraband.
  • corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
  • crossbanded — (of a handrail) having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail
  • dentil band — (in classical architecture) a molding occupying the position of a row of dentils and often cut to resemble one.
  • disbandment — to break up or dissolve (an organization): They disbanded the corporation.
  • disturbance — the act of disturbing.
  • dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
  • double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
  • embankments — Plural form of embankment.
  • energy band — a range of energies associated with the quantum states of electrons in a crystalline solid. In a semiconductor or an insulator there is a valence band containing many states, most of which are occupied. Above this is a forbidden band with only a few isolated states caused by impurities. Above this is a conduction band containing many states most of which are empty. In a metal there is a continuous valence-conduction band
  • four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
  • gang-banger — a member of a violent street gang.
  • gangbangers — Plural form of gangbanger.
  • garage band — a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group
  • grand banks — an extensive shoal SE of Newfoundland: fishing grounds. 350 miles (565 km) long; 40,000 sq. mi. (104,000 sq. km).
  • guttae band — regula.
  • head-banger — metalhead.
  • headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
  • headbanging — rhythmical moving of the head up and down in dancing to heavy metal
  • husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
  • husbandland — the holding once held by a husband or tenant farmer or the quantity of land held by him, approximately 32 acres
  • husbandless — Without a husband.
  • husbandlike — resembling a husband
  • inter-urban — of, located in, or operating between two or more cities or towns.
  • interrobang — 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.
  • living bank — a facility in which donated human organs or tissues are preserved for subsequent transplantation.
  • memory bank — the complete records, archives, or the like of an organization, country, etc.
  • monte alban — a major ceremonial center of the Zapotec culture, near the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, occupied from 600 b.c. to a.d. 700.
  • mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
  • out-of-band — 1.   (communications)   The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4.   (software)   Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
  • outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
  • rhythm band — a collection of simple percussion instruments used especially with piano accompaniment to teach musical rhythm.
  • rubber band — a narrow, circular or oblong band of rubber, used for holding things together, as papers or a box and its lid.
  • saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
  • smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
  • snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
  • string band — a band consisting of stringed instruments
  • suburbanism — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
  • suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
  • suburbanize — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
  • telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
  • the lebanon — a republic in W Asia, on the Mediterranean: an important centre of the Phoenician civilization in the third millennium bc; part of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 until 1919; gained independence in 1941 (effective by 1945). Official language: Arabic; French and English are also widely spoken. Religion: Muslim and Christian. Currency: Lebanese pound. Capital: Beirut. Pop: 4 131 583 (2013 est). Area: 10 400 sq km (4015 sq miles)
  • unabandoned — forsaken or deserted: an abandoned building; an abandoned kitten.
  • unhusbanded — not assisted by husbandry; not cultivated
  • unurbanized — to make or cause to become urban, as a locality.
  • urban blues — an extrovert and rhythmic style of blues, usually accompanied by a band
  • urban dance — a dance or dance style originated by urban American blacks, often performed to rap music.
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