12-letter words containing b, u, t, r, e
- blue vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
- blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
- bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
- booster pump — A booster pump is a pump which is used where pressure is low and needs to be increased.
- bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
- breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
- breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
- brevicaudate — having a short tail.
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
- broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
- brown butter — beurre noir.
- brush turkey — any of several gallinaceous birds, esp Alectura lathami, of New Guinea and Australia, having a black plumage: family Megapodidae (megapodes)
- buck private — a common soldier
- bucket truck — a truck with an attached aerial lift or movable boom.
- buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
- buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
- 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.
- bull terrier — A bull terrier is a breed of strong dog with a short, whitish coat and a thick neck.
- bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
- bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
- butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
- butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
- butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
- butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
- butter paper — a semi-transparent, waterproof paper used for wrapping butter, etc
- butter sauce — a sauce made of melted butter, often diluted with water, sometimes thickened with flour or egg yolk, or both, and seasoned with lemon juice.
- butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
- butyl rubber — a copolymer of isobutene and isoprene, used in tyres and as a waterproofing material
- buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- cacao butter — cocoa butter
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- carvel-built — (of a vessel) having a hull with planks made flush at the seams
- chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
- circulatable — Capable of being circulated.
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.