11-letter words containing s, o, u, b, r
- burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
- burrowstown — a burgh town
- 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 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 oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
- button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- 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.
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- construable — that can be construed
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- control bus — (architecture) In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- counterbase — a double bass
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- course book — A course book is a textbook that students and teachers use as the basis of a course.
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- distributor — a person or thing that distributes.
- do sb proud — If someone does you proud, they treat you very well, for example by welcoming you and giving you good food and entertainment.
- doorbusters — Plural form of doorbuster.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- 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)
- doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- doubletrees — Plural form of doubletree.
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- ebola virus — a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- febriferous — producing fever.
- fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- george bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- inobtrusive — unobtrusive.