11-letter words containing o, b, s, l
- bookselling — the activity of selling books
- boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- boston bull — Boston terrier
- bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
- boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- break loose — to free oneself by force
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- 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 parole — an escape from prison.
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- by all odds — the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
- 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.
- cablevision — cable television.
- calico bass — crappie
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- cannonballs — Plural form of cannonball.
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- catabolisms — Plural form of catabolism.
- catabolites — Plural form of catabolite.
- celebrators — Plural form of celebrator.
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
- chalkboards — Plural form of chalkboard.
- chrysoberyl — a rare very hard greenish-yellow mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in orthorhombic crystalline form and occurring in coarse granite: used as a gemstone in the form of cat's eye and alexandrite. Formula: BeAl2O4
- close brace — right brace
- closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.