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11-letter words containing n, a, b, t, e

  • bonaventura — Saint, called the Seraphic Doctor. 1221–74, Italian Franciscan monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher; author of a Life of St Francis and Journey of the Soul to God. Feast day: July 14
  • bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
  • bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • botheration — bother
  • bottle bank — A bottle bank is a large container into which people can put empty bottles so that the glass can be used again.
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
  • breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
  • brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
  • butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
  • cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
  • cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • can't abide — If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much.
  • cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
  • carbon-date — to determine the age of an organic object by examining the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14
  • carbonatite — a rare intrusive or extrusive igneous rock, mostly found in Africa, that contains a high proportion of carbonate minerals
  • carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
  • carburetant — a substance, as gasoline or benzene, added to air or gas to carburet it
  • carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
  • castor bean — the seed of this plant
  • celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
  • celebration — A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone's birthday or anniversary.
  • celebutante — a young woman from a wealthy background who becomes a celebrity
  • celtiberian — a member of a Celtic people (Celtiberi) who inhabited the Iberian peninsula during classical times
  • center back — the player in the middle of the back line.
  • centerboard — a movable board or metal plate that, when lowered through a slot in the floor of a shallow-draft sailboat, functions like a keel to reduce leeward drift or increase stability, esp. one that moves on a pivot
  • centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
  • centrobaric — of or concerned with a centre of gravity
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