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11-letter words containing s, o, u

  • bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
  • bonus stock — shares of stock, usually common, given by a corporation as a bonus with the purchase of another class of security
  • boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
  • borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
  • bosom buddy — close friend
  • boss around — order about
  • boston bull — Boston terrier
  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • boundedness — the quality of being bounded
  • bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
  • 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.
  • brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
  • brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
  • 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
  • brush broom — Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom.
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • bubble sort — A sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries "bubble upward" in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value. Because it is not very good relative to other methods and is the one typically stumbled on by naive and untutored programmers, hackers consider it the canonical example of a naive algorithm. The canonical example of a really *bad* algorithm is bogo-sort. A bubble sort might be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue only from brain damage or willful perversity.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • buenos dias — good day; good morning
  • buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
  • bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
  • bulbous bow — a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of a ship to reduce turbulence
  • bulbousness — the quality of being bulbous
  • bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
  • bull's wool — nonsense
  • bumbershoot — an umbrella
  • bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • burne-jones — Sir Edward. 1833–98, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer of stained-glass windows and tapestries
  • 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.
  • bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
  • 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.
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
  • bust a move — go, leave
  • butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
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