11-letter words containing us
- bust a move — go, leave
- bustle pipe — an annular pipe distributing hot air to the tuyères.
- busy beaver — (theory) (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
- busy lizzie — a balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens balsamina, that has pink, red, or white flowers and is often grown as a pot plant
- busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- 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.
- cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
- cacqueteuse — a narrow, upright armchair of 16th-century France, having widely splayed arms and a very narrow back.
- cactus moth — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.
- cactus pear — tuna2 .
- cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- calico bush — mountain laurel
- calixtus ii — died 1124, French ecclesiastic: pope 1119–24.
- callimachus — late 5th century bc, Greek sculptor, reputed to have invented the Corinthian capital
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- callistus i — Calixtus I.
- callousness — made hard; hardened.
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
- can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
- canaliculus — a small channel, furrow, or groove, as in some bones and parts of plants
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- capaciously — In a capacious manner.
- capricornus — a faint zodiacal constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Sagittarius and Aquarius
- cardophagus — a donkey
- carduaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Carduaceae, a subfamily of composite plants that includes the thistle
- carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
- carniferous — bearing flesh.
- carnivorous — Carnivorous animals eat meat.
- carousingly — in a carousing manner
- carpophorus — an epithet of both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, meaning “fruit-bearer.”.
- cassiodorus — Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ˈfleɪvɪəs ˈmæɡnəs ɔːˈriːlɪəs). ?490–?585 ad, Roman statesman, writer, and monk; author of Variae, a collection of official documents written for the Ostrogoths
- castellanus — (of a cloud) having small turrets.
- castellatus — (formerly) castellanus.
- casus belli — an event or act used to justify a war
- catacaustic — (of a caustic curve or surface) formed by reflected light rays
- catadromous — (of fishes such as the eel) migrating down rivers to the sea in order to breed
- cataractous — of or relating to cataracts
- cattywampus — catawampus
- caulicolous — living or growing on other plants' stems
- cauligenous — originating or protruding from the stem of a plant
- causability — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- causalities — the relation of cause and effect: The result is the same, however differently the causality is interpreted.
- causational — the action of causing or producing.
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- causelessly — in a manner without cause or reason
- caustically — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.