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12-letter words containing b, u, r, o

  • bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
  • bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • broad church — You can refer to an organization, group, or area of activity as a broad church when it includes a wide range of opinions, beliefs, or styles.
  • broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
  • brochureware — (jargon, business)   A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
  • broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
  • brontosaurus — any very large herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus, common in North America during Jurassic times, having a long neck and long tail: suborder Sauropoda (sauropods)
  • brown butter — beurre noir.
  • brush border — a layer of tightly packed minute finger-like protuberances on cells that line absorptive surfaces, such as those of the intestine and kidney
  • brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
  • 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)
  • buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
  • buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
  • buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
  • buffer force — a force separating two opposing sides
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
  • bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
  • bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
  • bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
  • 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 almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • burseraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Burseraceae, a tropical family of trees and shrubs having compound leaves and resin or balsam in their stems. The family includes bdellium and some balsams
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • buying group — an association of companies who use their combined purchasing power to achieve the best prices from suppliers
  • 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-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • cacao butter — cocoa butter
  • carbon brush — a small block of carbon used to convey current between the stationary and moving parts of an electric generator, motor, etc
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
  • charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
  • chequerboard — Alternative spelling of checkerboard.
  • child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
  • chlorambucil — an alkylating drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases. Formula: C14H19Cl2NO2
  • circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
  • clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
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