11-letter words containing o, s, t, r, e
- barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
- baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
- barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
- basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- battledores — Plural form of battledore.
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beanshooter — peashooter
- bear's-foot — either of two Eurasian hellebore plants, Helleborus foetidus or H. viridis, having leaves shaped like the foot and claws of a bear
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- 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 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.
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- 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
- 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.
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bored stiff — very bored
- boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- 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.
- 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
- c-odescript — (language) A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
- cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.