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11-letter words that end in n

  • brain drain — When people talk about a brain drain, they are referring to the movement of a large number of scientists or academics away from their own country to other countries where the conditions and salaries are better.
  • break in on — to intrude on
  • breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
  • brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
  • bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
  • 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.
  • brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
  • broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • burrowstown — a burgh town
  • bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • businessman — A businessman is a man who works in business.
  • businessmen — a man regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
  • 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.
  • button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
  • button-down — A button-down shirt or a shirt with a button-down collar has a button under each end of the collar which you can fasten.
  • buzz-aldrin — Edwin Eugene, Jr ("Buzz") born 1930, U.S. astronaut.
  • by-election — A by-election is an election that is held to choose a new member of parliament when a member has resigned or died.
  • cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
  • cablevision — cable television.
  • cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
  • cakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
  • calcination — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
  • calcineurin — (enzyme) A protein phosphatase that stimulates the growth and differentiation of T cells.
  • calculation — A calculation is something that you think about and work out mathematically. Calculation is the process of working something out mathematically.
  • calefaction — the act of heating
  • calibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • californian — of or relating to California or its inhabitants
  • call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
  • callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
  • 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
  • camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
  • camerawoman — a woman who operates a film or television camera
  • camerawomen — Plural form of camerawoman.
  • cameroonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Republic of Cameroon or its inhabitants
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
  • cancelation — an act of canceling.
  • canceration — the process of becoming cancerous
  • cannulation — a metal tube for insertion into the body to draw off fluid or to introduce medication.
  • canopic urn — an urn used in ancient Egypt to hold and preserve the internal organs of the mummified dead
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