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11-letter words containing n, a, o, p

  • beam weapon — a laser-beam or particle-beam weapon.
  • bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • bipartition — divided into or consisting of two parts.
  • bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots
  • block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
  • boatmanship — boatsmanship.
  • bon appetit — enjoy your meal
  • bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
  • bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • 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)
  • bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
  • bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
  • box spanner — a spanner consisting of a steel cylinder with a hexagonal end that fits over a nut: used esp to turn nuts in positions that are recessed or difficult of access
  • boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brown paper — a coarse unbleached paper used for wrapping
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
  • cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
  • caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
  • cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
  • calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
  • call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
  • calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
  • campaniform — shaped like a bell
  • campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
  • campo santo — a cemetery
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • canophilist — a person who loves dogs
  • canopic jar — (in ancient Egypt) one of four containers with tops in the form of animal heads of the gods, for holding the entrails of a mummy
  • canopic urn — an urn used in ancient Egypt to hold and preserve the internal organs of the mummified dead
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
  • cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
  • cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
  • cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
  • cape pigeon — a species of seagoing petrel, Daption capensis, with characteristic white wing patches: a common winter visitor off the coasts of southern Africa: family Diomedeidae
  • capernoited — capricious
  • capernoitie — the head
  • capitations — Plural form of capitation.
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