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10-letter words containing b, e, u

  • board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
  • boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
  • body louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
  • böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
  • boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
  • bois brule — métis (def 2).
  • bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
  • boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
  • bombed out — destroyed or severely damaged by or as by bombing: a bombed-out village; a bombed-out economy.
  • bombed-out — A bombed-out building has been damaged or destroyed by a bomb.
  • bone up on — If you bone up on a subject, you try to find out about it or remind yourself of what you have already learned about it.
  • bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
  • bonne nuit — good night
  • book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
  • book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
  • boozehound — a person who drinks excessive amounts of alcohol regularly
  • bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
  • borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
  • bottle out — If you bottle out, you lose your courage at the last moment and do not do something you intended to do.
  • bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
  • bouillotte — a French card game similar to poker
  • bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
  • boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
  • bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
  • bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
  • bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
  • bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
  • bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
  • bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
  • bow rudder — (in canoeing) a technique in which a paddler in the bow holds the paddle at an angle from the side of the bow, using it as a rudder to steer.
  • box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
  • box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
  • box number — A box number is a number used as an address, for example one given by a newspaper for replies to a private advertisement, or one used by an organization for the letters sent to it.
  • box supper — a social gathering, as at a church, at which box lunches donated by women are auctioned off to raise funds
  • box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
  • bra burner — a contemptuous term used to refer to an ardent or militant feminist or to someone perceived as such.
  • bra-burner — a contemptuous term used to refer to an ardent or militant feminist or to someone perceived as such.
  • brake drum — the cast-iron drum attached to the hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle fitted with drum brakes
  • brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
  • breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
  • breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
  • breadstuff — any form of bread
  • break bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • break-bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • bren (gun) — a light, fast, gas-operated machine gun used by the British army in WWII
  • brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
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