11-letter words containing s, a, b, u
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- bushranging — the life of a bushranger
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- businessman — A businessman is a man who works in business.
- bust a move — go, leave
- busy beaver — (theory) (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
- busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
- butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
- 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.
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- casus belli — an event or act used to justify a war
- causability — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
- chelsea bun — a rolled yeast currant bun decorated with sugar
- child abuse — physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare
- chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
- circumbasal — surrounding the base.
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- confusables — Plural form of confusable.
- construable — that can be construed
- consumables — goods intended to be bought, used, and replaced, esp materials needed for computers and photocopiers
- counterbase — a double bass
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- crab cactus — Christmas cactus
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- cut sb dead — If you see someone you know and cut them dead, you ignore them.
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
- delta blues — a style of blues originating in the Mississippi Delta, typically featuring slide guitar and harmonica
- desublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- disbursable — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- discussable — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- disguisable — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- dissuadable — That can be dissuaded.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- double bass — the largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played.
- double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- douglas bag — an airtight bag used to collect expired air for analysis of oxygen consumption.
- douglas sbd — dauntless (def 2).
- drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds