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10-letter words containing b, l, u, e, r

  • bois brule — métis (def 2).
  • bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
  • 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.
  • box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • brushwheel — a toothless wheel with bristles attached to its circumference, used to turn another wheel by friction
  • bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
  • bugger all — Bugger all is a rude way of saying 'nothing'.
  • 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.
  • bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
  • bullbucker — a foreman who supervises fallers and buckers.
  • bulldogger — a person who brings an animal, esp a steer, to the ground by twisting its head from the horns
  • bullroarer — a wooden slat attached to a thong that makes a roaring sound when the thong is whirled: used esp by native Australians in religious rites
  • bully tree — any of several tropical American trees of the sapodilla family that yield balata
  • bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
  • bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
  • burchfieldCharles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
  • burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
  • burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
  • burlingameAnson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
  • burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
  • burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
  • burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • butlership — the skills of a butler
  • butterball — a chubby or fat person
  • butterless — without butter
  • buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
  • capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
  • carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
  • carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
  • celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
  • celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
  • censurable — deserving censure, condemnation, or blame
  • cerebellum — The cerebellum is a part of the brain in humans and other mammals that controls the body's movements and balance.
  • cherubical — Cherubic.
  • cherublike — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
  • circulable — able to be circulated
  • cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)
  • clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
  • cockleburr — Alternative form of cocklebur.
  • cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
  • colourable — capable of being coloured
  • colourbred — (of an animal) bred to be a particular colour
  • corbel out — to support on corbels
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