11-letter words containing a, b, c, u
- beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- beckenbauer — Franz. born 1945, German footballer: team captain when West Germany won the World Cup (1974): manager of West Germany (1984–90), coaching the team to success in the 1990 World Cup
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- 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
- biauricular — having two auricles.
- bicephalous — having two heads
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- biquadratic — of or relating to the fourth power
- bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black angus — Aberdeen Angus
- black cumin — a Eurasian herb, Nigella sativa, having pungent aromatic seeds used as a spice, but unrelated to cumin.
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- black stump — a long way off
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
- blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
- bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- bombay duck — a teleost fish, Harpodon nehereus, that resembles and is related to the lizard fishes: family Harpodontidae. It is eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
- bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
- bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
- 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).
- bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
- breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1. (web) Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2. (programming) Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
- bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
- bubble card — blister pack.
- bucaramanga — a city in N central Colombia, in the Cordillera Oriental: centre of a district growing coffee, tobacco, and cotton. Pop: 1 069 000 (2005 est)
- buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
- buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
- buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
- bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- bucolically — of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
- bureaucracy — A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials.