11-letter words containing b, u, s
- butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
- button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- casus belli — an event or act used to justify a war
- causability — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
- cerebellums — Plural form of cerebellum.
- chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
- chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar
- cheque stub — the part of a cheque that is retained as a record of its purpose
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
- chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
- circumbasal — surrounding the base.
- circumburst — (physics, astronomy) Surrounding a burst.
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- club fungus — basidiomycete
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- combustible — A combustible material or gas catches fire and burns easily.
- combustibly — In a combustible manner.
- combustions — Plural form of combustion.
- combustious — turbulent
- confusables — Plural form of confusable.
- construable — that can be construed
- consumables — goods intended to be bought, used, and replaced, esp materials needed for computers and photocopiers
- 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.
- convulsible — capable of becoming intensely agitated
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- 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.
- course book — A course book is a textbook that students and teachers use as the basis of a course.
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- crab cactus — Christmas cactus
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
- cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- cut sb dead — If you see someone you know and cut them dead, you ignore them.
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- cybersurfer — A person who surfs (browses the Internet).
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.