11-letter words containing c, u, r, e, a
- averruncate — to avert, to turn away
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- back burner — If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important.
- back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
- back-burner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- baconburger — a hamburger topped with strips of cooked bacon.
- bacteriuria — the presence of bacteria in the urine
- bancassurer — a bank that sells insurance products
- bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
- barrel cuff — a single cuff on a tailored sleeve, formed by a band of material and usually fastened by a button.
- beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
- 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
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- 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-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
- 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.
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- 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
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- 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
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- cactus pear — tuna2 .
- cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- cadmium red — a pigment used in painting, consisting of the sulfide and the selinide of cadmium, characterized by its strong red or reddish color, excellent film-forming properties, and slow drying rate.
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- calcineurin — (enzyme) A protein phosphatase that stimulates the growth and differentiation of T cells.
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- camera tube — the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal
- can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
- cane-cutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
- caper sauce — sauce flavoured with capers
- car journey — a trip or voyage made by automobile