11-letter words containing b, o, u, r
- 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.
- cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
- carburation — the process of mixing a hydrocarbon fuel with a correct amount of air to make an explosive mixture for an internal-combustion engine
- carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- carburettor — A carburettor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and petrol are mixed together to form a vapour which can be burned.
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
- church book — any of various books commonly used by a church, as a service book or a parish register.
- clenbuterol — a drug prescribed for breathing disorders
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- code number — a number used to identify something
- cold rubber — synthetic rubber made at low temperatures (about 5°C). It is stronger than that made at higher temperatures and is used for car tyres
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
- colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
- colubriform — shaped like or resembling a member of the Colubridae family of snakes
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columbiform — Having the form of a dove or pigeon.
- concubinary — of, relating to, or living in concubinage.
- conquerable — Capable of being conquered or subdued.
- construable — that can be construed
- contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contributer — Misspelling of contributor.
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- contributor — You can use contributor to refer to one of the causes of an event or situation, especially if that event or situation is an unpleasant one.
- control bus — (architecture) In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
- corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- counterbase — a double bass
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- counterblow — a retaliatory blow
- counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
- counterbore — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
- course book — A course book is a textbook that students and teachers use as the basis of a course.
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- crazy about — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- distributor — a person or thing that distributes.