11-letter words containing c, e, u
- blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
- blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- blue screen — a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence
- blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
- blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
- blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
- bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
- bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
- bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
- bottle club — a so-called club in which patrons, nominally members, are served liquor from bottles purportedly belonging to them, without regard to liquor control laws
- bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
- bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
- breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1. (web) Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2. (programming) Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
- breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
- brute force — physical strength, power
- bubble card — blister pack.
- buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
- bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
- bucket list — a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies
- bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- bucket-load — a large quantity
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- buckskinned — made of buckskin
- bull-necked — having a short thick neck
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bumper crop — large harvest
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- 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
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
- buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
- bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
- bur chervil — a plant of the carrot family, Anthriscus caucalis, that is related to and resembles chervil
- bureaucracy — A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials.
- 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.
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
- butenedioic — designating a type of acid