11-letter words containing a, b, s
- bush league — In baseball, a bush league is the same as a minor league.
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bush-league — inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.
- bushbashing — the process of forcing a path through the bush
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- bushranging — the life of a bushranger
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- businessman — A businessman is a man who works in business.
- bust a move — go, leave
- busy beaver — (theory) (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
- busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
- butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by no means — on no account; in no way
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- byzantinism — caesaropapism, especially before the Great Schism of 1054.
- byzantinist — an authority on or student of the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire.
- cabbalistic — cabala.
- cabin class — a class of accommodation on a passenger ship between first class and tourist class
- cablevision — cable television.
- calico bass — crappie
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
- candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
- cannibalise — to subject to cannibalism.
- cannibalism — If a group of people practise cannibalism, they eat the flesh of other people.
- cannonballs — Plural form of cannonball.
- canvas-back — a North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, the male of which has a whitish back and a reddish-brown head and neck.
- canvasbacks — Plural form of canvasback.
- capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
- capstan bar — a lever, often wooden, for turning a capstan
- carabineers — Plural form of carabineer.
- carabineros — Plural form of carabinero.
- carbapenems — Plural form of carbapenem.
- carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
- carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- cashability — money or an equivalent, as a check, paid at the time of making a purchase.
- casselberry — a city in central Florida.
- cassia bark — the cinnamon-like bark of this tree, used as a spice
- castability — the ability of materials to set in a mould when mixed with water and a bonding agent
- castor bean — the seed of this plant
- casus belli — an event or act used to justify a war
- catabaptist — a person who is opposed to baptism.