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