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11-letter words containing b, u, s, l

  • blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
  • blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
  • blue cheese — cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue
  • blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
  • blue devils — a fit of depression or melancholy
  • blue ensign — an ensign having the Union Jack on a blue background at the upper corner of the vertical edge alongside the hoist: flown by Royal Navy auxiliary vessels, and, with some extra distinguishing mark or insignia, by certain yacht clubs
  • blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
  • blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
  • blue screen — a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence
  • blue shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
  • blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
  • blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
  • blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • blueblossom — a shrub, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, of the buckthorn family, abundant in the western U.S., having finely toothed oblong leaves and lilaclike clusters of blue flowers.
  • blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  • blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
  • boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
  • bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
  • boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
  • boston bull — Boston terrier
  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
  • 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's nose — bullnose (def 1).
  • bull's wool — nonsense
  • bullmastiff — a breed of dog
  • bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • bump uglies — to have sexual intercourse
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
  • burlesquely — in a burlesque manner
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
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