11-letter words containing b, u
- bellfounder — a foundry worker who casts bells
- bellmouthed — having a flaring mouth or opening like that of a bell
- belly laugh — A belly laugh is a very loud, deep laugh.
- bellybutton — the navel
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- belowground — underground
- belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
- belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
- 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.
- ben yehudah — Eliezer [el-ee-ez-er] /ˌɛl iˈɛz ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1922, Jewish scholar, born in Lithuania.
- bend double — When you bend double, you bend the top half of your body downwards a long way.
- bent double — If someone is bent double, the top part of their body is leaning forward towards their legs, usually because they are in great pain or because they are laughing a lot. In American English, you can also say that someone is bent over double.
- benue-congo — a branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages, consisting of the Bantu languages together with certain other languages of W Africa
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
- bermuda bag — an oval-shaped handbag with wooden handles and changeable decorative cloth covers.
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- 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
- beurre noir — a sauce of darkly browned butter, sometimes flavored with herbs, vinegar, etc.
- 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)
- biauricular — having two auricles.
- bicephalous — having two heads
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- big picture — a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
- big-leaguer — Sports. a player in a major league.
- biliousness — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
- billet-doux — a love letter
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- binucleated — having two nuclei
- bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
- biomolecule — a molecule occurring naturally in living organisms
- biquadratic — of or relating to the fourth power
- biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
- biscuit tin — an airtight container for storing biscuits in
- 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
- bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black angus — Aberdeen Angus
- black cumin — a Eurasian herb, Nigella sativa, having pungent aromatic seeds used as a spice, but unrelated to cumin.
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- black stump — a long way off
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- 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
- bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.