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11-letter words containing on

  • bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • bone marrow — Bone marrow is the soft fatty substance inside human or animal bones.
  • bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
  • boniface ii — pope a.d. 530–532.
  • boniface ivSaint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • boniface ix — (Pietro Tomacelli) died 1404, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1389–1404.
  • boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
  • bonne femme — prepared in simple style, as in a cream sauce containing mushrooms: fillet of sole bonne femme.
  • bontempelli — Massimo. 1878–1960, Italian dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic. His works include the play Nostra Dea (1925) and the novel The Faithful Lover (1953)
  • bonus issue — an issue of shares made by a company without charge and distributed pro rata among existing shareholders
  • bonus point — an additional point in a game, a sporting competition, or any similar scheme in which points can be awarded
  • bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
  • bonus stock — shares of stock, usually common, given by a corporation as a bonus with the purchase of another class of security
  • bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
  • boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
  • boston bull — Boston terrier
  • boston crab — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler seizes both or one of his opponent's legs, turns him face downwards, and exerts pressure over his back
  • boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
  • botheration — bother
  • bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
  • bourgeoning — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
  • bourguignon — a sauce made with red wine, onions, and seasoning
  • boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
  • brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • break in on — to intrude on
  • brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • broederbond — (in South Africa) a secret society of Afrikaner Nationalists committed to securing and maintaining Afrikaner control over important areas of government
  • bronchocele — dilatation of a bronchus.
  • bronx cheer — A Bronx cheer is a sound that people make by vibrating their lips in order to express disapproval or contempt.
  • bronze dore — ormolu (def 2).
  • bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
  • brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
  • buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
  • bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • buon giorno — good day; hello
  • burne-jones — Sir Edward. 1833–98, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer of stained-glass windows and tapestries
  • bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
  • button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
  • button lift — a kind of ski lift for one person consisting of a moving cable to which is attached a pole with a circular plate at the bottom, which a skier places between his or her legs to be carried up the hill
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