11-letter words containing s, e, c, r
- blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- boss screen — a screen image within a computer game that can be activated instantly, designed to hide the evidence of game-playing, esp at work
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
- bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
- breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1. (web) Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2. (programming) Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
- breadsticks — bread baked in long thin crisp sticks
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- 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.
- 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
- buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
- burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- 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 tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- c-odescript — (language) A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
- c1 security — Orange Book
- c2 security — Orange Book
- cactus pear — tuna2 .
- cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- calc-sinter — travertine
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- calendarist — a person who calendarizes
- callicrates — 5th century bc, Greek architect: with Ictinus, designed the Parthenon
- camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
- camel grass — a grass, Cymbopogon schoenanthus, of southern Asia and northern Africa, having fragrant foliage.
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
- camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
- can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
- canary seed — birdseed.
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.