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11-letter words containing b, w, r

  • bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • burrowstown — a burgh town
  • 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.
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
  • buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
  • cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
  • counterblow — a retaliatory blow
  • crewmembers — Plural form of crewmember.
  • crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
  • crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
  • crowberries — Plural form of crowberry.
  • crown block — A crown block is a fixed set of sheaves (= pulleys) at the top of a derrick, over which the drilling line is run.
  • crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
  • curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
  • do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
  • drawability — the degree to which a metal can be drawn.
  • drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
  • dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
  • dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
  • dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
  • embowerment — the act of embowering
  • eyebrowless — having no eyebrows
  • fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
  • fly-by-wire — (of aircraft or spacecraft) activated entirely by electronic controls.
  • four-by-two — a piece of timber with a cross section that measures 4 inches by 2 inches
  • furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
  • glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
  • globeflower — any of several plants belonging to the genus Trollius, of the buttercup family, as T. laxus, of North America, having rounded, yellowish flowers.
  • hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
  • handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
  • hash browns — fried potato cake
  • hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
  • hereinbelow — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
  • high blower — a horse that produces a blowing sound when exhaling.
  • highbrowism — Highbrow attitudes and policies generally.
  • jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
  • jaw-breaker — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
  • jawbreakers — Plural form of jawbreaker.
  • jewelry box — case for valuable accessories
  • joel barlowJoel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
  • kerb weight — the weight of a motor car without occupants, luggage, etc
  • killer blow — something that puts a stop to something or defeats something
  • know better — be sufficiently wise
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