11-letter words containing b, e, u
- bush league — In baseball, a bush league is the same as a minor league.
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- bush-league — inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- businessman — A businessman is a man who works in business.
- businessmen — a man regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
- bust a move — go, leave
- bustle pipe — an annular pipe distributing hot air to the tuyères.
- 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.
- busy lizzie — a balsaminaceous plant, Impatiens balsamina, that has pink, red, or white flowers and is often grown as a pot plant
- but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
- butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
- butenedioic — designating a type of acid
- butt chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade less than 4 inches (10 cm) long.
- butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
- butt-cheeks — the flesh of the buttocks
- butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
- butter tart — a kind of tart made with butter, brown sugar, and raisins
- butter tree — any of several trees, as the shea, whose fatty seeds yield a butterlike substance
- butterbread — bread spread with butter.
- buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
- butterfield — William. 1814–1900, British architect of the Gothic Revival; his buildings include Keble College, Oxford (1870) and All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1849–59)
- butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness
- butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
- butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
- butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
- button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
- button tree — any of a genus (Conocarpus) of dicotyledonous West Indian trees with buttonlike fruit
- button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
- buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
- buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- buy-to-fret — denoting the practice of buying a property to let to tenants during a period when property values are falling
- buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- 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.
- cabbage bug — harlequin bug
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- camera tube — the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal
- cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- carburetant — a substance, as gasoline or benzene, added to air or gas to carburet it