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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.
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