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11-letter words containing b, u, r

  • breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
  • breunnerite — an iron-containing type of magnesite used in the manufacture of refractory bricks
  • brick-built — made of bricks
  • brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
  • bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
  • bring round — to restore (a person) to consciousness, esp after a faint
  • bringing-up — to carry, convey, conduct, or cause (someone or something) to come with, to, or toward the speaker: Bring the suitcase to my house. He brought his brother to my office.
  • british gum — dextrin.
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • broad gauge — a railway track with a greater distance between the lines than the standard gauge of 561⁄2 inches (about 1.44 metres) used now by most mainline railway systems
  • broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
  • broad-gauge — Railroads. of or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge: broad-gauge rolling stock.
  • broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
  • bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
  • brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
  • brook trout — a North American freshwater trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, introduced in Europe and valued as a food and game fish
  • brown flour — wheat flour that uses approximately 85% of the whole grain
  • brown pound — the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
  • brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
  • brown trout — a common brownish variety of the trout Salmo trutta that occurs in the rivers of N Europe and has been successfully introduced in North America
  • brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
  • brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • brush broom — Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom.
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • brusqueness — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
  • brute force — physical strength, power
  • bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
  • bubble card — blister pack.
  • bubble over — to overflow, as boiling liquid
  • bubble sort — A sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries "bubble upward" in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value. Because it is not very good relative to other methods and is the one typically stumbled on by naive and untutored programmers, hackers consider it the canonical example of a naive algorithm. The canonical example of a really *bad* algorithm is bogo-sort. A bubble sort might be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue only from brain damage or willful perversity.
  • bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
  • bucaramanga — a city in N central Colombia, in the Cordillera Oriental: centre of a district growing coffee, tobacco, and cotton. Pop: 1 069 000 (2005 est)
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • buffer fund — money put aside to help alleviate the adverse short-term effects of something
  • buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
  • bukhara rug — a kind of rug, typically having a black-and-white geometrical pattern on a reddish ground
  • bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
  • bulimarexia — bulimia (sense 2)
  • bull header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • 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.
  • bull riding — a rodeo event in which a contestant tries to ride a bucking bull for eight seconds, with one hand holding a rope tied to a band around the bull's chest.
  • bull-roarer — a wooden slat that produces a roaring sound when whirled around one's head on the end of a string or thong, used by some peoples of the world in religious ceremonies and by others as a toy.
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