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11-letter words containing o, b, s, e

  • bible story — a story from the Bible
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
  • biliousness — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
  • biocoenosis — a diverse community inhabiting a single biotope
  • bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
  • biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
  • biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
  • biomimetics — the study and development of synthetic systems that mimic the formation, function, or structure of biologically produced substances and materials and biological mechanisms and processes.
  • bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
  • bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
  • bisociative — relating to bisociation
  • black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
  • bladdernose — hooded seal
  • blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
  • blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
  • blastocoele — the segmentation cavity of a developing ovum or of the blastula
  • blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
  • blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
  • bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
  • 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.
  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • bloatedness — the state of being swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
  • block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
  • blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
  • blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
  • blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
  • blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
  • blueblossom — a shrub, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, of the buckthorn family, abundant in the western U.S., having finely toothed oblong leaves and lilaclike clusters of blue flowers.
  • boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
  • bobby-soxer — esp. in the 1940s, a girl in her early teens, esp. one who conformed to adolescent fads
  • bobsledding — a sled having two pairs of runners, a brake, and a steering wheel or other mechanism that enables the front rider to direct the sled down a steeply banked run or chute.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
  • body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
  • bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
  • boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
  • bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
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