11-letter words containing b, u, s, t, o
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- 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.
- cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
- counterbase — a double bass
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- distributor — a person or thing that distributes.
- dog biscuit — a hard biscuit for dogs, usually containing ground meat, bones, etc.
- doorbusters — Plural form of doorbuster.
- double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
- 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-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
- doubletrees — Plural form of doubletree.
- doubtlessly — without doubt; certainly; surely; unquestionably.
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- ebullitions — Plural form of ebullition.
- fantabulous — extremely fine or desirable; excellent; wonderful.
- fat-soluble — soluble in oils or fats.
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- 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.
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- incubations — Plural form of incubation.
- inobtrusive — unobtrusive.
- isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
- knockabouts — Plural form of knockabout.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- locust bean — carob.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- maraboutism — Support for marabouts (Muslim holy men or mystics).
- masturbator — to engage in masturbation.
- microbursts — Plural form of microburst.
- misdoubtful — doubting; distrustful
- misdoubting — Present participle of misdoubt.
- mossbluiter — the bittern
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- moxibustion — (in Eastern medicine) the burning of moxa on or near a person’s skin as a counterirritant.
- muttonbirds — Plural form of muttonbird.
- neuroblasts — Plural form of neuroblast.
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfuscatory — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfusticate — Synonym of obfuscate.
- obliquities — Plural form of obliquity.
- obliquitous — the state of being oblique.
- obscuration — the act of obscuring.
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- obscurities — Plural form of obscurity.