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11-letter words containing e, t, o

  • breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
  • brent goose — a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • bride-to-be — A bride-to-be is a woman who is soon going to be married.
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
  • broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
  • broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
  • brotherhood — Brotherhood is the affection and loyalty that you feel for people who you have something in common with.
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brown betty — a baked apple pudding made with butter, spices, sugar, and bread crumbs
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • brute force — physical strength, power
  • 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 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
  • bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
  • 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
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
  • 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.
  • bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
  • bust a move — go, leave
  • butenedioic — designating a type of acid
  • butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
  • butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
  • button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
  • button tree — any of a genus (Conocarpus) of dicotyledonous West Indian trees with buttonlike fruit
  • button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
  • buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • buy-to-fret — denoting the practice of buying a property to let to tenants during a period when property values are falling
  • by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
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