12-letter words containing b, u, e, n
- bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
- bourbon rose — a hybrid rose, Rosa borboniana, having dark, carmine-colored flowers, cultivated in many horticultural varieties.
- bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
- bournonville — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1805–79, Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.
- bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- break ground — to do something that has not been done before
- broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
- brown butter — beurre noir.
- brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
- bubble dance — a solo dance by a nude or nearly nude woman, as in a burlesque show, using one or more balloons for covering.
- bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
- bubble under — to remain just beneath a particular level
- buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- bucket bench — a Pennsylvania Dutch dresser having a lower portion closed with doors for milk pails, an open shelf for water pails, and an upper section with shallow drawers.
- buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
- buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
- buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
- buenos aires — the capital of Argentina, a major port and industrial city on the Río de la Plata estuary: became capital in 1880; university (1821). Pop: 13 349 000 (2005 est)
- buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- bull session — A bull session is an informal conversation among a small group of people.
- bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
- bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
- bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
- bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
- burner phone — a disposable cell phone with prepaid service, often used with the intent to temporarily obscure the true identity or contact information of the user: Members of the cartel used burner phones to evade federal surveillance. I always give out the number from my burner phone when I’m going on a blind date.
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- business end — The business end of a tool or weapon is the end of it which does the work or causes damage rather than the end that you hold.
- businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
- butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
- butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
- carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
- carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
- celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
- chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine