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

  • beautifier — A person who or a thing which beautifies or makes beautiful.
  • beaux arts — noting or pertaining to a style of architecture, popularly associated with the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, that prevailed in France in the late 19th century and that was adopted in the U.S. and elsewhere c1900, characterized by the free and eclectic use and adaptation of French architectural features of the 16th through 18th centuries combined so as to give a massive, elaborate, and often ostentatious effect, and also by the use of symmetrical plans preferably allowing vast amounts of interior space.
  • beaux-arts — relating to the classical decorative style, esp that of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris
  • beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
  • behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
  • belisarius — ?505–565 ad, Byzantine general under Justinian I. He recovered North Africa from the Vandals and Italy from the Ostrogoths and led forces against the Persians
  • belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
  • benzofuran — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C8H6O
  • bestraught — distraught; distracted
  • betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
  • bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
  • bifurcated — divided into two branches.
  • big laurel — the rhododendron.
  • bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
  • biquadrate — the fourth power
  • bladdernut — any temperate shrub or small tree of the genus Staphylea, esp S. pinnata of S Europe, that has bladder-like seed pods: family Staphyleaceae
  • blue alert — (in military or civilian defense) an alert following the first, or yellow, alert, in which air attack seems probable.
  • blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
  • blue crane — the great blue heron.
  • blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
  • blue racer — a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
  • blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
  • blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
  • bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
  • bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
  • bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
  • board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
  • boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
  • bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
  • bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bra burner — a contemptuous term used to refer to an ardent or militant feminist or to someone perceived as such.
  • bra-burner — a contemptuous term used to refer to an ardent or militant feminist or to someone perceived as such.
  • brake drum — the cast-iron drum attached to the hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle fitted with drum brakes
  • brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
  • breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
  • breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
  • breadstuff — any form of bread
  • 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.
  • bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
  • bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
  • bubs grade — a baby
  • buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
  • buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
  • buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
  • 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.
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