11-letter words containing e, u, r, o
- 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 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 oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- 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
- 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 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.
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- car journey — a trip or voyage made by automobile
- carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- carburettor — A carburettor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and petrol are mixed together to form a vapour which can be burned.
- carduaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Carduaceae, a subfamily of composite plants that includes the thistle
- carniferous — bearing flesh.
- cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
- cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- cavernulous — possessing or being full of small cavities
- celliferous — making or bearing cells
- centuriator — a historian who compiles work by centuries, esp one of the writers of the Magdeburg Centuries
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
- ceremonious — especially or excessively polite or formal
- ceteosaurus — a large dinosaur of the Jurassic period
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chancellour — Archaic form of chancellor.
- changeround — the process of changing position
- chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
- chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
- chateauroux — a town in central France: 10th-century castle (Château-Raoul). Pop: 46 386 (2009)
- cheliferous — bearing chelae
- chequerwork — any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern
- chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
- chloroquine — a synthetic drug administered orally to treat malaria. Formula: C18H26ClN3
- chorus line — the group of dancers who perform routines in a musical
- chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
- chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
- chug report — (humour) From "chug" - to drink heavily. A bug report whose the submitter is thought to have had one too many. Not as bad as a drug report.
- church mode — a mode belonging to a codified system of modes in use in Gregorian chant and in other music to c1600.
- churchgoers — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
- churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.