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11-letter words containing b, u, o

  • 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.
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • 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.
  • bucolically — of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
  • buddy movie — a genre of film dealing with the relationship and adventures of two friends
  • buenos dias — good day; good morning
  • buffalo bug — carpet beetle
  • buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
  • buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
  • bugging out — Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
  • 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).
  • buon giorno — good day; hello
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
  • 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
  • burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
  • burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
  • burrowstown — a burgh town
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
  • 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 oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
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