11-letter words containing o, u, e, s
- boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- boundedness — the quality of being bounded
- bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- 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
- brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
- 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
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
- bulbousness — the quality of being bulbous
- bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
- burne-jones — Sir Edward. 1833–98, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer of stained-glass windows and tapestries
- 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 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 oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bust a move — go, leave
- 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
- 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.
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- callousness — made hard; hardened.
- camouflages — Plural form of camouflage.
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- carduaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Carduaceae, a subfamily of composite plants that includes the thistle
- carniferous — bearing flesh.
- cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
- cauligenous — originating or protruding from the stem of a plant
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- cavernulous — possessing or being full of small cavities
- cell fusion — the merging of two or more cells into a single cell.
- celliferous — making or bearing cells
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum