11-letter words containing a, s, u, e
- bal musette — a dance hall in France in which the music is provided by an accordion band.
- balefulness — The characteristic of being baleful.
- ball-buster — an arduous, often unpleasant task.
- balustraded — Having balustrades.
- balustrades — Plural form of balustrade.
- bancassurer — a bank that sells insurance products
- banefulness — The state or quality of being baneful.
- banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
- barbaresque — (particularly of art) stylistically barbaric
- baroqueness — The state or condition of being baroque.
- barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
- base clause — the initial element of a recursive definition, that defines the first element of the infinite sequence generated thereby
- base runner — any member of the team at bat who has reached first, second, or third base safely or is trying to reach a base or home plate
- baserunning — the act of running around bases
- bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
- bath tissue — toilet paper.
- baume scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the specific gravity of liquids. 1 degree Baumé is equal to 144.3((s–1)/s), where s is specific gravity
- bawdy house — a brothel.
- bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
- beach house — a holiday house overlooking a beach
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- 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
- bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)
- bicephalous — having two heads
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- 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.
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
- brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
- 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.