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11-letter words containing b, u

  • bass guitar — a guitar that has the same pitch and tuning as a double bass, usually electrically amplified
  • bastard cut — (of a file) having medium teeth; intermediate between a coarse cut and a fine cut
  • bateau neck — boat neck.
  • bath tissue — toilet paper.
  • bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
  • bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
  • baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
  • baudot code — (communications)   (For etymology, see baud) A character set predating EBCDIC and used originally and primarily on paper tape. Use of Baudot reportedly survives in TDDs and some HAM radio applications. In Baudot, characters are expressed using five bits. Baudot uses two code sub-sets, the "letter set" (LTRS), and the "figure set" (FIGS). The FIGS character (11011) signals that the following code is to be interpreted as being in the FIGS set, until this is reset by the LTRS (11111) character. binary hex LTRS FIGS -------------------------- 00011 03 A - 11001 19 B ? 01110 0E C : 01001 09 D $ 00001 01 E 3 01101 0D F ! 11010 1A G & 10100 14 H # 00110 06 I 8 01011 0B J BELL 01111 0F K ( 10010 12 L ) 11100 1C M . 01100 0C N , 11000 18 O 9 10110 16 P 0 10111 17 Q 1 01010 0A R 4 00101 05 S ' 10000 10 T 5 00111 07 U 7 11110 1E V ; 10011 13 W 2 11101 1D X / 10101 15 Y 6 10001 11 Z " 01000 08 CR CR 00010 02 LF LF 00100 04 SP SP 11111 1F LTRS LTRS 11011 1B FIGS FIGS 00000 00 [..unused..] Where CR is carriage return, LF is linefeed, BELL is the bell, SP is space, and STOP is the stop character. Note: these bit values are often shown in inverse order, depending (presumably) which side of the paper tape you were looking at. Local implementations of Baudot may differ in the use of #, STOP, BELL, and '.
  • baudrillard — Jean. 1929–2007, French sociologist and theorist of postmodernism; his books include Seduction (1979), America (1986), and The Spirit of Terrorism (2002)
  • baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
  • baume scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the specific gravity of liquids. 1 degree Baumé is equal to 144.3((s–1)/s), where s is specific gravity
  • bawdy house — a brothel.
  • bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
  • be about to — If you are about to do something, you are going to do it very soon. If something is about to happen, it will happen very soon.
  • be laughing — to be in a favourable situation
  • be my guest — If you say be my guest to someone, you are giving them permission to do something.
  • be quids in — If you are quids in, you have more money left than you expected or get more for your money than you expected.
  • beach buggy — a low car, often open and with balloon tyres, for driving on sand
  • beach house — a holiday house overlooking a beach
  • bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
  • beanbag gun — a gun that fires a fabric bag containing lead shot, designed to stun or knock the target to the ground
  • beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
  • beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
  • beat out of — If someone beats another person out of something, they get that thing by deceiving the other person or behaving dishonestly.
  • beau dollar — a silver dollar.
  • beaugregory — a blue and yellow damselfish, Pomacentrus leucostictus, inhabiting shallow waters off Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies.
  • beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
  • beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
  • beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
  • beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
  • beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
  • beautifully — in a beautiful manner
  • beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
  • beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
  • beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
  • 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.
  • beautyberry — any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.
  • beblubbered — tearstained, covered in tears from weeping
  • beckenbauer — Franz. born 1945, German footballer: team captain when West Germany won the World Cup (1974): manager of West Germany (1984–90), coaching the team to success in the 1990 World Cup
  • bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
  • bedding out — the process of planting out young flowering plants in beds
  • bedside rug — a rug beside a bed
  • beefburgers — Plural form of beefburger.
  • been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
  • beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
  • behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
  • belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
  • beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
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