11-letter words containing u, l, o, s
- babelicious — (of a woman) sexually very attractive.
- baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
- barbarously — uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
- barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- 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.
- betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
- bicephalous — having two heads
- biliousness — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
- blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
- blueblossom — a shrub, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, of the buckthorn family, abundant in the western U.S., having finely toothed oblong leaves and lilaclike clusters of blue flowers.
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
- 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.
- boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
- boston bull — Boston terrier
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- 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 parole — an escape from prison.
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- 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.
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- calculators — Plural form of calculator.
- calico bush — mountain laurel