11-letter words containing n, b, o
- bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
- boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
- bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
- bowling bag — a bag for carrying a bowling ball and often bowling shoes or other equipment.
- box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
- 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
- box-ticking — the process of satisfying bureaucratic administrative requirements rather than assessing the actual merit of something
- boxing ring — A boxing ring is a raised square platform with ropes around it in which boxers fight.
- boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
- boysenberry — a type of bramble: a hybrid of the loganberry and various blackberries and raspberries
- brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- brain coral — a stony coral of the genus Meandrina, in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- 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 in on — to intrude on
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- 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
- brent goose — a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions
- breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.
- bring forth — to give birth to
- bring round — to restore (a person) to consciousness, esp after a faint
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- 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.
- brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
- 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.
- brocken bow — anticorona.
- broederbond — (in South Africa) a secret society of Afrikaner Nationalists committed to securing and maintaining Afrikaner control over important areas of government
- broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
- broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
- broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
- broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
- broken line — a discontinuous line or series of line segments, as a series of dashes, or a figure made up of line segments meeting at oblique angles.
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- broken reed — a weak, unreliable, or ineffectual person
- broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
- broken wind — heaves
- broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
- 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.
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- 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.