11-letter words containing b, o
- barber shop — A barber shop is a shop where a barber works.
- barber-shop — Also called, especially British, barber's shop. the place of business of a barber.
- barbershops — Plural form of barbershop.
- barbie doll — a teenage doll with numerous sets of clothes and accessories
- barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
- bargain for — If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.
- bargeboards — Plural form of bargeboard.
- barley coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 3/32 to 3/16 inch (2.4 to 4.8 mm).
- barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
- barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
- baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
- baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
- barographic — Measured using a barograph.
- baron-cohen — Sacha. born 1970, British television and film comedian, best known for his creation of the characters Ali G and Borat
- baronetical — pertaining to baronets
- barons' war — either of two civil wars in 13th-century England. The First Barons' War (1215–17) was precipitated by King John's failure to observe the terms of Magna Carta: many of the Barons' grievances were removed by his death (1216) and peace was concluded in 1217. The Second Barons' War (1264–67) was caused by Henry III's refusal to accept limitations on his authority: the rebel Barons (led (1264–65) by Simon de Montfort), initially successful, were defeated at the battle of Evesham (1265); sporadic resistance continued until 1267
- baroqueness — The state or condition of being baroque.
- barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
- barracootas — Plural form of barracoota.
- barracoutas — Plural form of barracouta.
- barrel bolt — a rod-shaped bolt for fastening a door or the like, attached to one side of the door at the edge and sliding into a socket on the frame of the opening.
- barrel knot — a knot for fastening together two strands of gut or nylon, as fishing lines or leaders.
- barrel roll — a flight manoeuvre in which an aircraft rolls about its longitudinal axis while following a spiral course in line with the direction of flight
- barrel roof — a roof or ceiling having a semicylindrical form.
- barrel-roll — to perform a barrel roll.
- barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
- bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
- bartolommeo — Fra. original name Baccio della Porta. 1472–1517, Italian painter of the Florentine school, noted for his austere religious works
- baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
- base memory — (hardware, jargon) The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
- base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
- basepersons — Plural form of baseperson.
- bashibazouk — (in the 19th century) one of a group of irregular Turkish soldiers notorious for their brutality
- basic cobol — (language) A subset of COBOL from COBOL-60 standards.
- basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
- basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
- basis point — In finance, a basis point is one hundredth of a per cent (.01%).
- basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
- bastard pop — a type of popular music in which two records, usually from different genres or eras, are blended together into a whole, often using the vocal performance from one and the instrumental from the other
- bastard son — an illegitimate son
- bastinadoed — Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.
- bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
- bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- bathophobia — the fear of depths of any kind, whether a fear of deep water or of falling from a great height
- batological — relating to the study of brambles
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
- batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.