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13-letter words containing b, e, u

  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
  • brain surgery — operation on the brain
  • brain truster — a member of a brain trust; an important but usually unofficial adviser.
  • brandy butter — butter and sugar creamed together with brandy and served with Christmas pudding, etc
  • brassicaceous — belonging to the plant family Brassicaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Cruciferae.
  • brazen it out — to act in a bold way as if one need not be ashamed
  • bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
  • break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
  • breeches buoy — a ring-shaped life buoy with a support in the form of a pair of short breeches, in which a person is suspended for safe transfer from a ship
  • bristle brush — a brush made with animal bristles
  • brittany blue — a medium greenish blue.
  • broiler house — a building in which broiler chickens are reared in confined conditions
  • bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
  • brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
  • brussels lace — a fine lace with a raised or appliqué design
  • bubble column — A bubble column is a reactor in which a gas bubbles up through a liquid or slurry.
  • bubble memory — a method of storing high volumes of data by the use of minute pockets of magnetism (bubbles) in a semiconducting material. The bubbles may be caused to migrate past a read head or to a buffer area for storage
  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • bûche de noël — a French Christmas cake made from a thin layer of spongecake that is rolled up and frosted so as to resemble a decorative Yule log
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • bucket ladder — a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
  • buckeye state — Ohio (used as a nickname).
  • budget period — the time which a budget covers
  • budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
  • buenas noches — good night
  • bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
  • buffalo berry — a shrub (genus Shepherdia) of the oleaster family, native to W North America, with silvery leaves
  • buffalo grove — a city in NE Illinois.
  • buffer memory — a temporary holding area for data
  • buffet supper — supper at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
  • build bridges — to promote reconciliation or cooperation between hostile groups or people
  • building line — the boundary line along a street beyond which buildings must not project
  • building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
  • bulbourethral — of or relating to the rounded mass of tissue surrounding the urethra at the root of the penis.
  • bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
  • bulkhead deck — the uppermost continuous deck in the hull of a vessel, forming watertight compartments with the main transverse bulkheads.
  • bull elephant — an adult male elephant
  • bullace grape — the thick-skinned musk-scented purple grape produced by this plant: used to make wine
  • bullet-headed — with a head shaped like a bullet
  • bullhead rail — a rail having a cross section with a bulbous top and bottom, the top being larger
  • bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • bumblebeefish — any of several gobies of the genus Brachygobius, inhabiting waters of the Malay Archipelago and having brown and yellow bands on the body that resemble the markings of a bumblebee.
  • bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
  • bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
  • bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
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