11-letter words containing t, o, r, s, l
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blood sport — Blood sports are sports such as hunting in which animals are killed.
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- 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.
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- boxer-style — cut or fashioned in the style of boxer shorts: men's boxer-style bathing suits.
- bristlecone — a western American pine with bristle-like prickles on its cones
- bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
- british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
- 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.
- calculators — Plural form of calculator.
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- carillonist — a carillonneur
- castelvetro — Lodovico [loh-duh-vee-koh;; Italian law-daw-vee-kaw] /ˌloʊ dəˈvi koʊ;; Italian ˌlɔ dɔˈvi kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1505–71, Italian philologist and literary critic.
- cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
- ceilometers — Plural form of ceilometer.
- celebrators — Plural form of celebrator.
- centerfolds — Plural form of centerfold.
- centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
- cereologist — Someone who studies crop circles, especially one who believes that they are not man-made or formed by other terrestrial processes.
- ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- chloroplast — a plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments, occurring in plants and algae that carry out photosynthesis
- choirstalls — fixed seats in the choir of a church, generally of carved wood
- cholesteric — resulting from the reaction of nitric acid and cholesterin and producing cholesterates
- cholesterin — a sterol, C 27 H 46 O, that occurs in all animal tissues, especially in the brain, spinal cord, and adipose tissue, functioning chiefly as a protective agent in the skin and myelin sheaths of nerve cells, a detoxifier in the bloodstream, and as a precursor of many steroids: deposits of cholesterol form in certain pathological conditions, as gallstones and atherosclerotic plaques.
- cholesterol — Cholesterol is a substance that exists in the fat, tissues, and blood of all animals. Too much cholesterol in a person's blood can cause heart disease.
- christology — the branch of theology concerned with the person, attributes, and deeds of Christ
- chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
- circulators — Plural form of circulator.
- cleethorpes — a resort in E England, in North East Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire. Pop: 31 853 (2001)
- cleistocarp — cleistothecium.
- clinometers — Plural form of clinometer.
- cliometrics — the study of economic history using statistics and computer analysis
- cloistering — Present participle of cloister.
- closed term — (theory) A term with no free variables.
- clostridial — any of several rod-shaped, spore-forming, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, found in soil and in the intestinal tract of humans and animals.
- clostridium — any anaerobic typically rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Clostridium, occurring mainly in soil, but also in the intestines of humans and animals: family Bacillaceae. The genus includes the species causing botulism and tetanus
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- coal strike — a cessation of work by coal miners as a protest against working conditions or low pay
- collaterals — security pledged for the payment of a loan: He gave the bank some stocks and bonds as collateral for the money he borrowed.
- coloraturas — Plural form of coloratura.
- colorcaster — an announcer, especially in sports, who provides supplementary information or comment.
- colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
- comfortless — to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to: They tried to comfort her after her loss.
- compulsitor — a thing, such as a mandate, that compels