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11-letter words containing s, e, r, b

  • blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
  • blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
  • blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
  • blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
  • blue screen — a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence
  • blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
  • blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
  • blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  • bobby-soxer — esp. in the 1940s, a girl in her early teens, esp. one who conformed to adolescent fads
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
  • 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.
  • boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
  • boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
  • bondservant — a serf or slave
  • bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
  • boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
  • bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
  • bored stiff — very bored
  • 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
  • boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • 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.
  • box spanner — a spanner consisting of a steel cylinder with a hexagonal end that fits over a nut: used esp to turn nuts in positions that are recessed or difficult of access
  • boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
  • boysenberry — a type of bramble: a hybrid of the loganberry and various blackberries and raspberries
  • bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
  • brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
  • brake servo — The brake servo is a device for increasing the pressure of the driver's foot on the brake pedal.
  • bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • breadbasket — a basket for carrying bread or rolls
  • 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
  • breadthless — the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
  • breadthways — from side to side
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
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