11-letter words containing b, r, u, l, o
- 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.
- bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- 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
- 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.
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
- 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.
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
- clenbuterol — a drug prescribed for breathing disorders
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- 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
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
- colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
- colubriform — shaped like or resembling a member of the Colubridae family of snakes
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columbiform — Having the form of a dove or pigeon.
- conquerable — Capable of being conquered or subdued.
- construable — that can be construed
- control bus — (architecture) In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
- corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- counterblow — a retaliatory blow
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- double room — double (def 13).
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- double-reed — of or relating to wind instruments producing sounds through two reeds fastened and beating together, as the oboe.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- doubletrees — Plural form of doubletree.
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- ebola virus — a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- four-h club — an organization sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, established chiefly to instruct young people, originally in rural areas, in modern farming methods and other useful skills, as carpentry and home economics.
- free labour — the labour of workers who are not members of trade unions
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.