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11-letter words containing o, s, t, e

  • 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.
  • benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
  • best effort — (networking)   A classification of low priority network traffic, used especially the Internet. Different kinds of traffic have different priorities. Videoconferencing and other types of real-time communication, for example, require a certain minimum guaranteed bandwidth and latency and so must be given a high priority. Electronic mail, on the other hand, can tolerate an arbitrarily long delay and is classified as a "best-effort" service.
  • 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
  • big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
  • bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
  • biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
  • biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
  • biomimetics — the study and development of synthetic systems that mimic the formation, function, or structure of biologically produced substances and materials and biological mechanisms and processes.
  • bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts
  • bisociative — relating to bisociation
  • 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.
  • boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
  • 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.
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • 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.
  • boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
  • bored stiff — very bored
  • boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
  • 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
  • bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
  • boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
  • bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
  • brent goose — a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions
  • bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
  • broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
  • broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
  • 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.
  • 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
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