11-letter words containing s
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
- 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
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- 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.
- bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
- bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
- bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
- bonus issue — an issue of shares made by a company without charge and distributed pro rata among existing shareholders
- bonus point — an additional point in a game, a sporting competition, or any similar scheme in which points can be awarded
- 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
- bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- bookselling — the activity of selling books
- boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- boost-start — jump-start.
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- bored stiff — very bored
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- bosom buddy — close friend
- boss around — order about
- 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
- bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
- boston bull — Boston terrier
- boston crab — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler seizes both or one of his opponent's legs, turns him face downwards, and exerts pressure over his back
- boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
- bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
- bottom fish — any fish that feeds or lives near the bottom of a body of water, as a flounder or catfish
- bottom-fish — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
- 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.
- bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw