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12-letter words containing b, e, u

  • buddy system — (in swimming and scuba diving) the practice of pairing swimmers, each being responsible for the other's safety.
  • buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
  • buenos aires — the capital of Argentina, a major port and industrial city on the Río de la Plata estuary: became capital in 1880; university (1821). Pop: 13 349 000 (2005 est)
  • buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
  • buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
  • buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
  • buffer force — a force separating two opposing sides
  • buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
  • bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
  • bull session — A bull session is an informal conversation among a small group of people.
  • bull terrier — A bull terrier is a breed of strong dog with a short, whitish coat and a thick neck.
  • bull thistle — a tall, spiny thistle, Cirsium vulgare, having heads of pink to purple flowers: a common weed in North America.
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bumble-puppy — a game in which a ball, attached by string to a post, is hit so that the string winds round the post
  • bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
  • bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
  • bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
  • bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
  • bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
  • bur cucumber — a climbing vine, Sicyos angulatus, of the gourd family, of eastern and midwestern North America, having leaves with pointed lobes, small white or greenish flowers, and clusters of prickly fruits.
  • bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
  • burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
  • burner phone — a disposable cell phone with prepaid service, often used with the intent to temporarily obscure the true identity or contact information of the user: Members of the cartel used burner phones to evade federal surveillance. I always give out the number from my burner phone when I’m going on a blind date.
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
  • burrillville — a town in N Rhode Island.
  • burseraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Burseraceae, a tropical family of trees and shrubs having compound leaves and resin or balsam in their stems. The family includes bdellium and some balsams
  • bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
  • bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • business end — The business end of a tool or weapon is the end of it which does the work or causes damage rather than the end that you hold.
  • businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
  • busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
  • butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
  • butter paper — a semi-transparent, waterproof paper used for wrapping butter, etc
  • butter sauce — a sauce made of melted butter, often diluted with water, sometimes thickened with flour or egg yolk, or both, and seasoned with lemon juice.
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • butyl rubber — a copolymer of isobutene and isoprene, used in tyres and as a waterproofing material
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
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