11-letter words containing e, u, r, a
- autoworkers — Plural form of autoworker.
- autozeroing — (electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
- auxanometer — an instrument that measures the linear growth of plant shoots
- auxiliaries — foreign or allied troops serving another nation; mercenaries
- average out — If a set of numbers average out to a particular figure or if you average them out to that figure, their average is calculated to be that figure.
- 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
- ball-buster — an arduous, often unpleasant task.
- balustraded — Having balustrades.
- balustrades — Plural form of balustrade.
- bancassurer — a bank that sells insurance products
- barbaresque — (particularly of art) stylistically barbaric
- barbiturate — A barbiturate is a drug which people take to make them calm or to help them to sleep.
- bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
- barium meal — a preparation of barium sulphate, which is opaque to X-rays, swallowed by a patient before X-ray examination of the upper part of the alimentary canal
- barn-burner — Informal. something that is highly exciting, impressive, etc.: The All Stars game was a real barnburner.
- baroqueness — The state or condition of being baroque.
- barquentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
- barrel cuff — a single cuff on a tailored sleeve, formed by a band of material and usually fastened by a button.
- barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
- base runner — any member of the team at bat who has reached first, second, or third base safely or is trying to reach a base or home plate
- baserunning — the act of running around bases
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
- baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- beau dollar — a silver dollar.
- beaugregory — a blue and yellow damselfish, Pomacentrus leucostictus, inhabiting shallow waters off Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies.
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
- beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
- beautyberry — any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.
- 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
- been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
- behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
- belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
- beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- 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.
- 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)
- big-leaguer — Sports. a player in a major league.