11-letter words containing e, r, b, u
- bus shelter — A bus shelter is a bus stop that has a roof and at least one open side.
- 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 lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
- 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
- busy beaver — (theory) (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
- butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
- butt stroke — a blow struck with the butt of a rifle, as in close combat.
- butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
- butter tart — a kind of tart made with butter, brown sugar, and raisins
- butter tree — any of several trees, as the shea, whose fatty seeds yield a butterlike substance
- butterbread — bread spread with butter.
- buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
- butterfield — William. 1814–1900, British architect of the Gothic Revival; his buildings include Keble College, Oxford (1870) and All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1849–59)
- butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness
- butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
- butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
- butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
- button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
- button tree — any of a genus (Conocarpus) of dicotyledonous West Indian trees with buttonlike fruit
- buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- buy-to-fret — denoting the practice of buying a property to let to tenants during a period when property values are falling
- buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- 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
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- carburetant — a substance, as gasoline or benzene, added to air or gas to carburet it
- carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- carburetter — Alternative spelling of carburetor.
- carburettor — A carburettor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and petrol are mixed together to form a vapour which can be burned.
- carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
- carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
- cattle grub — the larva or adult of a warble fly, especially Hypoderma lineatum, a common pest of cattle in North America.
- cerebellous — of or relating to the cerebellum
- cerebellums — Plural form of cerebellum.
- chaleur bay — an inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence between NE New Brunswick and SE Quebec, in SE Canada: rich fishing ground. About 85 miles (135 km) long; 15–25 miles (24–40 km) wide.
- chamber mug — a chamber pot.
- chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
- chiliburger — a hamburger served with a topping of chili con carne.
- chuck-berry — Charles Edward Anderson ("Chuck") born 1926, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer, musician, and composer.