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11-letter words containing c, u, r, s

  • bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
  • blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • 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 spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1.   (web)   Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2.   (programming)   Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
  • 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
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • 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 tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • c1 security — Orange Book
  • c2 security — Orange Book
  • cactus pear — tuna2 .
  • cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
  • calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
  • calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
  • calculators — Plural form of calculator.
  • calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
  • campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
  • can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
  • cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
  • caper sauce — sauce flavoured with capers
  • capricornus — a faint zodiacal constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Sagittarius and Aquarius
  • carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
  • cardophagus — a donkey
  • carduaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Carduaceae, a subfamily of composite plants that includes the thistle
  • carefullest — Superlative form of careful.
  • carefulness — cautious in one's actions: Be careful when you cross the street.
  • caricatures — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
  • carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
  • carniferous — bearing flesh.
  • carnivorous — Carnivorous animals eat meat.
  • carousingly — in a carousing manner
  • carpophorus — an epithet of both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, meaning “fruit-bearer.”.
  • cartularies — Plural form of cartulary.
  • cassiodorus — Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ˈfleɪvɪəs ˈmæɡnəs ɔːˈriːlɪəs). ?490–?585 ad, Roman statesman, writer, and monk; author of Variae, a collection of official documents written for the Ostrogoths
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