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

  • autocracies — Plural form of autocracy.
  • autodialers — Plural form of autodialer.
  • autoerotism — pleasurable sensations or tensions arising in the erogenous body zones without external stimulation
  • autoreverse — a system in a tape player that automatically reverses the tape and plays another track when one track has finished
  • autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
  • autoworkers — Plural form of autoworker.
  • aversion-to — a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually followed by to): a strong aversion to snakes and spiders.
  • azoospermia — absence of spermatozoa in the semen
  • azores high — a subtropical high centered near the Azores.
  • baby shower — gift-giving party for unborn baby
  • babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
  • bacciferous — bearing berries
  • bachelorism — bachelorhood
  • backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
  • backcrosses — Plural form of backcross.
  • backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
  • backstroker — a person who swims the backstroke, especially a member of a competitive swimming team who specializes in the backstroke.
  • backstrokes — Plural form of backstroke.
  • bacteriosis — any bacterial disease
  • bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
  • badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
  • ballesteros — Severiano (sevɛˈrjano). 1957–2011, Spanish professional golfer: won the British Open Championship (1979; 1984; 1988) and the US Masters (1980; 1983)
  • bannerstone — a North American prehistoric stone implement in the form of a double-edged ax with a notch or hole, possibly for attaching a handle.
  • barber shop — A barber shop is a shop where a barber works.
  • barber-shop — Also called, especially British, barber's shop. the place of business of a barber.
  • barbershops — Plural form of barbershop.
  • bargeboards — Plural form of bargeboard.
  • barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
  • barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
  • baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
  • baroqueness — The state or condition of being baroque.
  • barotseland — a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).
  • barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
  • base memory — (hardware, jargon)   The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
  • base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
  • basepersons — Plural form of baseperson.
  • basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
  • bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
  • battledores — Plural form of battledore.
  • bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
  • beanshooter — peashooter
  • bear's-foot — either of two Eurasian hellebore plants, Helleborus foetidus or H. viridis, having leaves shaped like the foot and claws of a bear
  • behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
  • behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
  • belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
  • belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
  • belt-course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • bengal rose — China rose (def 1).
  • bengal-rose — Also called Bengal rose. a rose, Rosa chinensis, of China, having slightly fragrant crimson, pink, or white flowers.
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