11-letter words containing o, s, l
- 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.
- cacomistles — Plural form of cacomistle.
- calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- calculators — Plural form of calculator.
- calico bass — crappie
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- callousness — made hard; hardened.
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- cameo glass — an ornamental glass in which two layers, often blue and opaque white, have been cased, and on which the design has been treated in the manner of a cameo.
- camouflages — Plural form of camouflage.
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- cancelmoose — (messaging) A semi-mythical being that cancels Usenet articles posted by others. (In general, an article can only be cancelled by its original author.) The Cancelmoose's usual target is spam or extremely excessive cross-posting. Some believe that the Cancelmoose exists only in the same mythic sense that B1FF, the NSA line eater and Shub Internet exist; others consider Cancelmoose's historicity to be closer to that of Kibo. The latter group assume that the real Cancelmoose is not one person (or moose), but instead is a cabal of NNTP wonks. However, the Cancelmoose is probably real, seeing as how it has its own website.
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candy floss — cotton candy.
- cannonballs — Plural form of cannonball.
- canophilist — a person who loves dogs
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.