10-letter words containing b, e, u
- brunetiere — Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahn] /fɛr diˈnɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1849–1906, French literary critic.
- brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- brush fire — a fire in brushwood
- brush-fire — limited in scope, area, or importance, as some labor disputes or local skirmishes.
- brushwheel — a toothless wheel with bristles attached to its circumference, used to turn another wheel by friction
- brusquerie — brusqueness; curtness
- bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
- bubble gum — Bubble gum is a sweet substance similar to chewing gum. You can blow it out of your mouth so it makes the shape of a bubble.
- bubble tea — a cold drink, originally from Taiwan, of tea infused with fruit flavouring, shaken to produce bubbles, and served over tapioca pearls in a clear cup. It is usually drunk through a very wide straw
- bubble-gum — a type of chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles through the lips.
- bubble-top — a bulletproof, transparent dome, as over the rear section of an automobile
- bubblehead — a frivolous person
- bubbliness — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
- bubs grade — a baby
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buck fever — nervous excitement felt by inexperienced hunters at the approach of game
- buck naked — Someone who is buck naked is not wearing any clothes at all.
- buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
- bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
- buckjumper — an untamed horse
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
- buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
- buff wheel — a wheel for buffing, consisting of a number of leather or canvas disks.
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
- bufflehead — a small North American diving duck, Bucephala (or Glaucionetta) albeola: the male has black-and-white plumage and a fluffy head
- buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
- bufotenine — a tryptamine alkaloid with hallucinogenic properties, found in the skin of some species of toad and in some mushrooms and tropical shrubs
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- bug-ridden — full of insects
- bugger all — Bugger all is a rude way of saying 'nothing'.
- bugger off — If someone buggers off, they go away quickly and suddenly. People often say bugger off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
- bugger-all — absolutely nothing; nothing at all: Those reckless investments left him with bugger-all.
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- bull moose — a member of the Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912
- bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
- bull wheel — any large driving gear among smaller gears.
- bull's-eye — The bull's-eye is the small circular area at the centre of a target.
- bull-nosed — having a rounded end
- bullbucker — a foreman who supervises fallers and buckers.