10-letter words containing a, u, r
- barotrauma — an injury caused by changes in atmospheric pressure, esp to the eardrums or lungs
- barquettes — a small, boat-shaped pastry shell filled with a savory or sweet mixture and served as an hors d'oeuvre or dessert.
- barracouta — a large predatory Pacific fish, Thyrsites atun, with a protruding lower jaw and strong teeth: family Gempylidae
- barracudas — Plural form of barracuda.
- barramunda — the edible Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, having paddle-like fins and a long body covered with large scales
- barramundi — any of several large edible Australian fishes esp the percoid species Lates calcarifer (family Centropomidae) of NE coastal waters or the freshwater species Scleropages leichardti (family Osteoglossidae) of Queensland
- barratrous — (legal) Tainted with, or constituting, barratry.
- barrelfuls — Plural form of barrelful.
- baseburner — a stove into which coal is automatically fed from a hopper above the fire chamber
- baserunner — a baseball player in the act of running around bases
- bat around — to discuss (an idea, proposition, etc) informally
- battenburg — an oblong sponge cake divided longitudinally into four square sections, two coloured pink and two yellow, with an outer coating of marzipan
- baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
- baumeister — Willi [vil-ee] /ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), 1889–1955, German painter.
- baumgarten — Alexander Gottlieb. 1714–62, German philosopher, noted for his pioneering work on aesthetics, a term that he originated
- bay laurel — a small evergreen Mediterranean laurel, Laurus nobilis, with glossy aromatic leaves, used for flavouring in cooking, and small blackish berries
- bear fruit — plant: produce fruit
- beauregard — P(ierre) G(ustave) T(outant) de1818-93; Confederate general
- beautifier — A person who or a thing which beautifies or makes beautiful.
- beaux arts — noting or pertaining to a style of architecture, popularly associated with the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, that prevailed in France in the late 19th century and that was adopted in the U.S. and elsewhere c1900, characterized by the free and eclectic use and adaptation of French architectural features of the 16th through 18th centuries combined so as to give a massive, elaborate, and often ostentatious effect, and also by the use of symmetrical plans preferably allowing vast amounts of interior space.
- beaux-arts — relating to the classical decorative style, esp that of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris
- beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- belisarius — ?505–565 ad, Byzantine general under Justinian I. He recovered North Africa from the Vandals and Italy from the Ostrogoths and led forces against the Persians
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- benzofuran — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C8H6O
- bestraught — distraught; distracted
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bicultural — having two cultures
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- big laurel — the rhododendron.
- bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- black ruff — a large, blackish, pelagic fish, Centrolophus niger, of the Atlantic Ocean, chiefly along the coast of Europe.
- black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
- blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- bladdernut — any temperate shrub or small tree of the genus Staphylea, esp S. pinnata of S Europe, that has bladder-like seed pods: family Staphyleaceae
- blue alert — (in military or civilian defense) an alert following the first, or yellow, alert, in which air attack seems probable.
- blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
- blue crane — the great blue heron.
- blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- blue racer — a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
- blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
- blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
- bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
- bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.