11-letter words containing l, b, s
- branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
- breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
- break loose — to free oneself by force
- breast line — a mooring line securing a ship to that part of a pier alongside it.
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
- breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
- breathalyse — to apply a Breathalyser test to (someone)
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
- brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
- bristlebird — any of various Australian warblers of the genus Dasyornis.
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- bristlelike — resembling a bristle
- bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
- bristliness — the quality of being bristly
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
- brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
- brittleness — the quality of being brittle
- broad glass — cylinder glass.
- brooklynese — the speech, especially the pronunciation, thought to be characteristic of a person coming from New York City, especially Brooklyn.
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- 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
- 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 list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
- bulbous bow — a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of a ship to reduce turbulence
- bulbousness — the quality of being bulbous
- bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
- bull's wool — nonsense
- bullmastiff — a breed of dog
- bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
- bump uglies — to have sexual intercourse
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- burlesquely — in a burlesque manner
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- bus shelter — A bus shelter is a bus stop that has a roof and at least one open side.
- bush ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
- 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 lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bush league — In baseball, a bush league is the same as a minor league.
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bush-league — inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.