11-letter words containing b, u, s, e
- beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- bedside rug — a rug beside a bed
- beefburgers — Plural form of beefburger.
- belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
- belt-course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
- bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)
- bicephalous — having two heads
- biliousness — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
- bisexuality — Biology. of both sexes. combining male and female organs in one individual; hermaphroditic.
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- bleu cheese — blue cheese
- block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- blue cheese — cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue
- blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
- blue devils — a fit of depression or melancholy
- blue ensign — an ensign having the Union Jack on a blue background at the upper corner of the vertical edge alongside the hoist: flown by Royal Navy auxiliary vessels, and, with some extra distinguishing mark or insignia, by certain yacht clubs
- blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
- blue island — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- blue screen — a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence
- blue shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
- blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
- blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
- blueblossom — a shrub, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, of the buckthorn family, abundant in the western U.S., having finely toothed oblong leaves and lilaclike clusters of blue flowers.
- blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
- blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
- 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.
- bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
- bonus issue — an issue of shares made by a company without charge and distributed pro rata among existing shareholders