11-letter words containing b, l, u, e, r
- blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
- blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
- blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
- boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
- bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
- branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
- bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
- brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
- brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
- brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
- bubble card — blister pack.
- bubble over — to overflow, as boiling liquid
- bubble sort — A sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries "bubble upward" in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value. Because it is not very good relative to other methods and is the one typically stumbled on by naive and untutored programmers, hackers consider it the canonical example of a naive algorithm. The canonical example of a really *bad* algorithm is bogo-sort. A bubble sort might be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue only from brain damage or willful perversity.
- bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
- bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
- bulimarexia — bulimia (sense 2)
- bull header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
- bull-roarer — a wooden slat that produces a roaring sound when whirled around one's head on the end of a string or thong, used by some peoples of the world in religious ceremonies and by others as a toy.
- bullet tree — any of various tropical American trees, as Manilkara bidentata, of the sapodilla family, that yield the gum balata.
- bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- bullfighter — A bullfighter is the person who tries to injure or kill the bull in a bullfight.
- bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
- bullterrier — a breed of dog
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bumbleberry — a mixture of berries used in pie fillings and in preserves
- bumper pool — a pool game played on a small, often octagonally shaped table with two pockets, having strategically placed cushioned pegs on the playing surface, usually necessitating bank shots to sink balls.
- bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
- bur chervil — a plant of the carrot family, Anthriscus caucalis, that is related to and resembles chervil
- burlesquely — in a burlesque manner
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- bus shelter — A bus shelter is a bus stop that has a roof and at least one open side.
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- 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