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

  • bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
  • bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
  • boundedness — the quality of being bounded
  • bouquetiere — an assortment of fresh vegetables
  • bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
  • bourgeoning — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
  • boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
  • bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
  • bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
  • breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
  • breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
  • broad gauge — a railway track with a greater distance between the lines than the standard gauge of 561⁄2 inches (about 1.44 metres) used now by most mainline railway systems
  • broad-gauge — Railroads. of or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge: broad-gauge rolling stock.
  • broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • 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
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • brute force — physical strength, power
  • 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 down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • bucket-load — a large quantity
  • buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
  • buddy movie — a genre of film dealing with the relationship and adventures of two friends
  • buenos dias — good day; good morning
  • buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
  • 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.
  • bumbershoot — an umbrella
  • bumble-foot — an inflammatory condition of the feet of birds, usually caused by an infection
  • bumper crop — large harvest
  • 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
  • bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • burne-jones — Sir Edward. 1833–98, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer of stained-glass windows and tapestries
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