11-letter words containing b, o, l, e
- broomballer — a person who plays broomball
- brotherlike — like a brother
- brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
- brown algae — any algae of the phylum Phaeophyta, such as the wracks and kelps, which contain a brown pigment in addition to chlorophyll
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
- bubble bowl — a spherical, usually clear glass vessel with a wide circular top opening, used as a vase, especially for displaying a single floating blossom.
- bubble over — to overflow, as boiling liquid
- bubble sort — A sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries "bubble upward" in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value. Because it is not very good relative to other methods and is the one typically stumbled on by naive and untutored programmers, hackers consider it the canonical example of a naive algorithm. The canonical example of a really *bad* algorithm is bogo-sort. A bubble sort might be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue only from brain damage or willful perversity.
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
- bulbousness — the quality of being bulbous
- bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
- bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
- bull-roarer — a wooden slat that produces a roaring sound when whirled around one's head on the end of a string or thong, used by some peoples of the world in religious ceremonies and by others as a toy.
- bullet hole — hole made by a bullet
- bullet wood — the wood of a bully tree.
- bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- bumble-foot — an inflammatory condition of the feet of birds, usually caused by an infection
- bumper pool — a pool game played on a small, often octagonally shaped table with two pockets, having strategically placed cushioned pegs on the playing surface, usually necessitating bank shots to sink balls.
- bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- cable modem — (communications, hardware) A type of modem that allows people to access the Internet via their cable television service. A cable modem can transfer data at 500 kbps or higher, compared with 28.8 kbps for common telephone line modems, but the actual transfer rates may be lower depending on the number of other simultaneous users on the same cable. Industry pundits often point out that the cable system still does not have the bandwidth or service level in many areas to make this feasible. For example, it has to be capable of two-way communication. See also: DOCSIS.
- cablevision — cable television.
- cache block — cache line
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
- carbimazole — a drug that inhibits the synthesis of the hormone thyroxine, used in the management of hyperthyroidism
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
- catabolites — Plural form of catabolite.
- cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.
- celebration — A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone's birthday or anniversary.
- celebrators — Plural form of celebrator.
- celebratory — A celebratory meal, drink, or other activity takes place to celebrate something such as a birthday, anniversary, or victory.
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
- charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
- charbroiler — a grill or other equipment used for charbroiling
- chrysoberyl — a rare very hard greenish-yellow mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in orthorhombic crystalline form and occurring in coarse granite: used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye and alexandrite. Formula: BeAl2O4