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11-letter words containing b, u, r

  • blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
  • blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  • blunderhead — Informal. a blunderer; nincompoop.
  • boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
  • body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • body colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
  • bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
  • boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
  • boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
  • bokhara rug — a Turkoman rug having a tan or red background and decorated with varied octagon patterns.
  • bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
  • bombing run — the part of a flight of a bomber aircraft that brings it to the point over a target at which its bombs are released
  • bonaventura — Saint, called the Seraphic Doctor. 1221–74, Italian Franciscan monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher; author of a Life of St Francis and Journey of the Soul to God. Feast day: July 14
  • bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
  • bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
  • boojum tree — a tree, Idria columnaris, native to Baja California, having spreading spiny branches, deciduous leaves, and yellow flowers.
  • borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
  • boss around — order about
  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • boudin noir — a dark-colored boiled sausage made with pork and blood, and often highly spiced
  • boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
  • boulder dam — Hoover Dam
  • bouquetiere — an assortment of fresh vegetables
  • bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
  • bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
  • bourgeoning — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
  • bourguignon — a sauce made with red wine, onions, and seasoning
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
  • boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
  • brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
  • brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
  • brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
  • brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
  • brandenburg — a state in NE Germany, part of East Germany until 1990. A former electorate, it expanded under the Hohenzollerns to become the kingdom of Prussia (1701). The district east of the Oder River became Polish in 1945. Capital: Potsdam. Pop: 2 575 000 (2003 est). Area: 29 481 sq km (11 219 sq miles)
  • branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
  • bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1.   (web)   Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2.   (programming)   Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
  • break it up — stop fighting
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
  • breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
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