11-letter words containing o, u, b
- bandy about — If someone's name or something such as an idea is bandied about or is bandied around, that person or that thing is discussed by many people in a casual way.
- bannockburn — a village in central Scotland, south of Stirling: nearby is the site of a victory (1314) of the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, over the English. Pop: 7396 (2001)
- barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
- barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
- baroqueness — The state or condition of being baroque.
- barracoutas — Plural form of barracouta.
- barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
- bashibazouk — (in the 19th century) one of a group of irregular Turkish soldiers notorious for their brutality
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
- baudot code — (communications) (For etymology, see baud) A character set predating EBCDIC and used originally and primarily on paper tape. Use of Baudot reportedly survives in TDDs and some HAM radio applications. In Baudot, characters are expressed using five bits. Baudot uses two code sub-sets, the "letter set" (LTRS), and the "figure set" (FIGS). The FIGS character (11011) signals that the following code is to be interpreted as being in the FIGS set, until this is reset by the LTRS (11111) character. binary hex LTRS FIGS -------------------------- 00011 03 A - 11001 19 B ? 01110 0E C : 01001 09 D $ 00001 01 E 3 01101 0D F ! 11010 1A G & 10100 14 H # 00110 06 I 8 01011 0B J BELL 01111 0F K ( 10010 12 L ) 11100 1C M . 01100 0C N , 11000 18 O 9 10110 16 P 0 10111 17 Q 1 01010 0A R 4 00101 05 S ' 10000 10 T 5 00111 07 U 7 11110 1E V ; 10011 13 W 2 11101 1D X / 10101 15 Y 6 10001 11 Z " 01000 08 CR CR 00010 02 LF LF 00100 04 SP SP 11111 1F LTRS LTRS 11011 1B FIGS FIGS 00000 00 [..unused..] Where CR is carriage return, LF is linefeed, BELL is the bell, SP is space, and STOP is the stop character. Note: these bit values are often shown in inverse order, depending (presumably) which side of the paper tape you were looking at. Local implementations of Baudot may differ in the use of #, STOP, BELL, and '.
- bawdy house — a brothel.
- bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
- be about to — If you are about to do something, you are going to do it very soon. If something is about to happen, it will happen very soon.
- beach house — a holiday house overlooking a beach
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- beat out of — If someone beats another person out of something, they get that thing by deceiving the other person or behaving dishonestly.
- beau dollar — a silver dollar.
- beaugregory — a blue and yellow damselfish, Pomacentrus leucostictus, inhabiting shallow waters off Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies.
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- bedding out — the process of planting out young flowering plants in beds
- been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
- behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
- bellfounder — a foundry worker who casts bells
- bellmouthed — having a flaring mouth or opening like that of a bell
- bellybutton — the navel
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- belowground — underground
- 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.
- bend double — When you bend double, you bend the top half of your body downwards a long way.
- bent double — If someone is bent double, the top part of their body is leaning forward towards their legs, usually because they are in great pain or because they are laughing a lot. In American English, you can also say that someone is bent over double.
- benue-congo — a branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages, consisting of the Bantu languages together with certain other languages of W Africa
- 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
- beurre noir — a sauce of darkly browned butter, sometimes flavored with herbs, vinegar, etc.
- bicephalous — having two heads
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- biliousness — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
- billet-doux — a love letter
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
- biomolecule — a molecule occurring naturally in living organisms
- bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.