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11-letter words containing a, b, r, s

  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
  • bristletail — any primitive wingless insect of the orders Thysanura and Diplura, such as the silverfish and firebrat, having a flattened body and long tail appendages
  • bristol bay — arm of the Bering Sea between the SW Alas. mainland & the Alaska Peninsula
  • broad glass — cylinder glass.
  • broad-based — comprehensive and inclusive
  • broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
  • broadcasted — to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
  • broadcaster — A broadcaster is someone who gives talks or takes part in interviews and discussions on radio or television programmes.
  • bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
  • brown toast — toasted wholemeal bread
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • burnt sugar — caramel
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • bushranging — the life of a bushranger
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • 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.
  • butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
  • 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.
  • candelabras — Plural form of candelabra.
  • capstan bar — a lever, often wooden, for turning a capstan
  • carabineers — Plural form of carabineer.
  • carabineros — Plural form of carabinero.
  • carbapenems — Plural form of carbapenem.
  • carbon sink — areas of vegetation, esp forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
  • carbonnades — Plural form of carbonnade.
  • carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
  • carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
  • casselberry — a city in central Florida.
  • cassia bark — the cinnamon-like bark of this tree, used as a spice
  • castor bean — the seed of this plant
  • celebrators — Plural form of celebrator.
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