11-letter words containing ne
- babyishness — The state or quality of being babyish.
- back burner — If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important.
- back-burner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- backchannel — an unofficial or covert means of conveying information, originally or esp in political or diplomatic circles
- balefulness — The characteristic of being baleful.
- balletomane — a person enthusiastic about the ballet
- baneberries — Plural form of baneberry.
- banefulness — The state or quality of being baneful.
- bannerstone — a North American prehistoric stone implement in the form of a double-edged ax with a notch or hole, possibly for attaching a handle.
- barley wine — an exceptionally strong beer
- barn-burner — Informal. something that is highly exciting, impressive, etc.: The All Stars game was a real barnburner.
- baronetical — pertaining to baronets
- baroqueness — The state or condition of being baroque.
- barquentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
- base runner — any member of the team at bat who has reached first, second, or third base safely or is trying to reach a base or home plate
- bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
- bateau neck — boat neck.
- battle line — the line along which troops are positioned for battle
- battle zone — an area where a battle or battles are being fought
- battleplane — an airplane designed for combat; warplane.
- bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
- bcg vaccine — a vaccine made from weakened strains of tubercle bacilli, used to produce immunity against tuberculosis.
- be confined — to be undergoing childbirth
- be made one — (of a man and a woman) to become married
- beam engine — an early type of steam engine, in which a pivoted beam is vibrated by a vertical steam cylinder at one end, so that it transmits motion to the workload, such as a pump, at the other end
- beardedness — the quality of having a beard, the quality of being bearded
- bearishness — The characteristic of being bearish.
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- bee's knees — an excellent or ideally suitable person or thing
- beer engine — a pump used to draw beer from a cask
- behind line — the line over which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
- belatedness — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
- benedict ii — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
- benedict iv — died a.d. 903, pope 900–03.
- benedict ix — died 1056? pope 1032–44; 1045; 1047–48.
- benedict vi — died a.d. 974, pope 973–74.
- benedict xi — (Niccolò Boccasini) 1240–1304, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1303–04.
- benedict xv — original name Giacomo della Chiesa. 1854–1922, pope (1914–22); noted for his repeated attempts to end World War I and for his organization of war relief
- benedictine — A Benedictine is a monk or nun who is a member of a Christian religious community that follows the rule of St. Benedict.
- benediction — A benediction is a kind of Christian prayer.
- benedictive — relating to a benediction or blessing
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- benefaction — the act of doing good, esp by giving a donation to charity
- benefactive — of or relating to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beneficence — the act of doing good; kindness
- beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction