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11-letter words containing r, o, b, e, t

  • bored stiff — very bored
  • boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
  • botheration — bother
  • bottle fern — a fern, Cystopteris fragilis, of rocky, wooded areas throughout North America, having grayish-green fronds and brittle stalks.
  • bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
  • bottle tree — any of several Australian sterculiaceous trees of the genus Sterculia (or Brachychiton) that have a bottle-shaped swollen trunk
  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • bottom gear — the lowest gear of a car, lorry, etc
  • bouquetiere — an assortment of fresh vegetables
  • bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
  • boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
  • bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
  • boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
  • bracteolate — having bractlets
  • bram stokerBram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • brattleboro — a town in SE Vermont.
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
  • breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
  • brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
  • breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
  • breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
  • brent goose — a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • bride-to-be — A bride-to-be is a woman who is soon going to be married.
  • 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.
  • broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
  • brotherhood — Brotherhood is the affection and loyalty that you feel for people who you have something in common with.
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brown betty — a baked apple pudding made with butter, spices, sugar, and bread crumbs
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
  • 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.
  • brute force — physical strength, power
  • 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.
  • bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • 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
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