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11-letter words containing b, s, e, t

  • book titles — (publication)   There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
  • boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
  • bored stiff — very bored
  • boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
  • bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
  • bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
  • boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
  • bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
  • breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
  • breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • breast beam — a horizontal bar, located at the front of a loom, over which the woven material is passed on its way to the cloth roll.
  • breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
  • breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
  • breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
  • breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
  • breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
  • breath test — A breath test is a test carried out by police in which a driver blows into a piece of equipment to show how much alcohol he or she has drunk.
  • breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • brent goose — a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions
  • bristlebird — any of various Australian warblers of the genus Dasyornis.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • bristlelike — resembling a bristle
  • bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
  • bristliness — the quality of being bristly
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • brittleness — the quality of being brittle
  • broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
  • broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
  • bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • bss segment — Block Started by Symbol
  • 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 list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
  • 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.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
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