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11-letter words containing b, o, l, u

  • bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
  • 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.
  • bucolically — of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
  • buffalo bug — carpet beetle
  • buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
  • build up to — If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually.
  • bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
  • bulbous bow — a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of a ship to reduce turbulence
  • 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's wool — nonsense
  • 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.
  • bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
  • bulldogging — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
  • 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
  • burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
  • 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
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • button lift — a kind of ski lift for one person consisting of a moving cable to which is attached a pole with a circular plate at the bottom, which a skier places between his or her legs to be carried up the hill
  • button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • buttonmould — the small core of plastic, wood, or metal that is the base for buttons covered with fabric, leather, etc
  • butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
  • by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
  • 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.
  • cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
  • calico bush — mountain laurel
  • cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
  • clenbuterol — a drug prescribed for breathing disorders
  • cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
  • cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
  • club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
  • coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
  • cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
  • cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
  • colliquable — capable of dissolving
  • colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
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