11-letter words containing o, b, s, t
- 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 shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- 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
- burrowstown — a burgh town
- 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.
- bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- bust a move — go, leave
- butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
- button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- castor bean — the seed of this plant
- catabolisms — Plural form of catabolism.
- catabolites — Plural form of catabolite.
- celebrators — Plural form of celebrator.
- chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
- cobblestone — Cobblestones are stones with a rounded upper surface which used to be used for making streets.
- cockleboats — Plural form of cockleboat.
- coenobitism — the practice of coenobites
- cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohabitates — cohabit.
- combinators — Plural form of combinator.
- combo store — a combined drugstore and supermarket.
- combustible — A combustible material or gas catches fire and burns easily.
- combustibly — In a combustible manner.
- combustions — Plural form of combustion.
- combustious — turbulent
- comestibles — food
- compost bin — a container designed to expedite the development of compost
- compostable — capable of being used as compost
- congestible — to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog: The subway entrance was so congested that no one could move.
- construable — that can be construed
- contestable — a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
- contrabands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contraband.
- contrabasso — (music) The largest kind of bass viol.
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- control bus — (architecture) In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
- corbie-step — any of a set of steps on the top of a gable
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- costa brava — a coastal region of NE Spain along the Mediterranean, extending from Barcelona to the French border: many resorts
- cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
- cotton swab — A cotton swab is the same as a swab.
- counterbase — a double bass
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.