11-letter words containing b, u, t, r
- burkburnett — a town in N Texas.
- burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
- burn center — a specialized medical facility that provides comprehensive care for patients with burn injuries.
- burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
- burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- burnt sugar — caramel
- burnt umber — a brown pigment obtained by heating umber
- burrowstown — a burgh town
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- bus network — (networking) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
- bus shelter — A bus shelter is a bus stop that has a roof and at least one open side.
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
- butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
- butter tart — a kind of tart made with butter, brown sugar, and raisins
- butter tree — any of several trees, as the shea, whose fatty seeds yield a butterlike substance
- butterbread — bread spread with butter.
- buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
- butterfield — William. 1814–1900, British architect of the Gothic Revival; his buildings include Keble College, Oxford (1870) and All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1849–59)
- butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness
- butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
- butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
- butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
- button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
- button tree — any of a genus (Conocarpus) of dicotyledonous West Indian trees with buttonlike fruit
- buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
- butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- buy-to-fret — denoting the practice of buying a property to let to tenants during a period when property values are falling
- cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
- cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- camera tube — the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal
- carburation — the process of mixing a hydrocarbon fuel with a correct amount of air to make an explosive mixture for an internal-combustion engine
- carburetant — a substance, as gasoline or benzene, added to air or gas to carburet it
- carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- carburetter — Alternative spelling of carburetor.
- carburettor — A carburettor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and petrol are mixed together to form a vapour which can be burned.
- carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
- carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
- cat burglar — A cat burglar is a thief who steals from houses or other buildings by climbing up walls and entering through windows or through the roof.