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11-letter words containing a, c, s, u

  • basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
  • bastard cut — (of a file) having medium teeth; intermediate between a coarse cut and a fine cut
  • baume scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the specific gravity of liquids. 1 degree Baumé is equal to 144.3((s–1)/s), where s is specific gravity
  • beach house — a holiday house overlooking a beach
  • beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
  • beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
  • betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • black angus — Aberdeen Angus
  • black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
  • black stump — a long way off
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1.   (web)   Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2.   (programming)   Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
  • bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
  • bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
  • cacqueteuse — a narrow, upright armchair of 16th-century France, having widely splayed arms and a very narrow back.
  • cactus moth — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.
  • cactus pear — tuna2 .
  • cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
  • calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
  • calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
  • calculators — Plural form of calculator.
  • calico bush — mountain laurel
  • calixtus ii — died 1124, French ecclesiastic: pope 1119–24.
  • callimachus — late 5th century bc, Greek sculptor, reputed to have invented the Corinthian capital
  • callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
  • callistus i — Calixtus I.
  • callousness — made hard; hardened.
  • calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
  • calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
  • calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
  • camouflages — Plural form of camouflage.
  • campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
  • can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
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