11-letter words containing o, s, b, e, r, t
- bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
- brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
- brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- 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.
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- 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
- 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 oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- 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
- celebrators — Plural form of celebrator.
- chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
- combo store — a combined drugstore and supermarket.
- construable — that can be construed
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- corbie-step — any of a set of steps on the top of a gable
- counterbase — a double bass
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
- dobos torte — a rich cake having many thin layers of sponge cake with creamy mocha filling and a caramel glaze on top
- doorbusters — Plural form of doorbuster.
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- doubletrees — Plural form of doubletree.
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- elaborators — Plural form of elaborator.
- emberrorist — a person or organization that reveals potentially embarrassing information, esp as a political weapon
- embryoblast — A mass of cells at the embryonic pole of the blastocyst, that develops to form the embryo.
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- freebooters — Plural form of freebooter.
- frostbitten — injured by frost or extreme cold.
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- heartthrobs — Plural form of heartthrob.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
- inobservant — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.