11-letter words containing o, s, e, l, t
- battledores — Plural form of battledore.
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
- belt-course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- best of all — You use best of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the thing that you prefer or that has most advantages out of all the things you have mentioned.
- betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
- 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.
- 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
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- 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.
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- 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.
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- 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.
- cacomistles — Plural form of cacomistle.
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
- castellanos — Julio [hoo-lyaw] /ˈhu lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1905–47, Mexican painter.
- castelvetro — Lodovico [loh-duh-vee-koh;; Italian law-daw-vee-kaw] /ˌloʊ dəˈvi koʊ;; Italian ˌlɔ dɔˈvi kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1505–71, Italian philologist and literary critic.
- castiglione — Count Baldassare (baldasˈsaːre). 1478–1529, Italian diplomat and writer, noted particularly for his dialogue on ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Courtier) (1528)
- catabolites — Plural form of catabolite.
- cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
- catonsville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- cattle show — a competitive event at which farmers show their best cattle
- cattle-stop — a grid of metal bars covering a hollow or hole dug in a roadway, intended to prevent the passage of livestock while allowing vehicles, etc, to pass unhindered
- ceilometers — Plural form of ceilometer.
- celebrators — Plural form of celebrator.
- centerfolds — Plural form of centerfold.
- centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
- cereologist — Someone who studies crop circles, especially one who believes that they are not man-made or formed by other terrestrial processes.
- ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- cheesecloth — Cheesecloth is cotton cloth that is very thin and light. There are tiny holes between the threads of the cloth.
- chiastolite — a variety of andalusite containing carbon impurities