11-letter words containing b, r, u, m
- 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.
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bumbleberry — a mixture of berries used in pie fillings and in preserves
- bumper crop — large harvest
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- 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.
- burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
- burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burnt umber — a brown pigment obtained by heating umber
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- camera tube — the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
- carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
- cerebellums — Plural form of cerebellum.
- chamber mug — a chamber pot.
- circumbasal — surrounding the base.
- circumburst — (physics, astronomy) Surrounding a burst.
- club member — a person who is a member of a club
- code number — a number used to identify something
- 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.
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curb market — curb (def 5).
- currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- diytterbium — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two ytterbium atoms in a molecule.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- double room — double (def 13).
- drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
- drum-beater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- dumb barter — a form of barter practiced among some peoples, in which the goods for exchange are left at and taken from a preselected spot without the exchanging parties ever coming face-to-face.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- encumbering — Present participle of encumber.