11-letter words containing e, u, r, t
- b1 security — Orange Book
- b2 security — Orange Book
- b3 security — Orange Book
- bacteriuria — the presence of bacteria in the urine
- ball-buster — an arduous, often unpleasant task.
- balustraded — Having balustrades.
- balustrades — Plural form of balustrade.
- barbiturate — A barbiturate is a drug which people take to make them calm or to help them to sleep.
- barquentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
- 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
- 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.
- belt course — an ornamental projecting band or continuous moulding along a wall
- belt-course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- beta crucis — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- big picture — a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
- biquarterly — occurring twice every three months
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blue myrtle — blueblossom.
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
- bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
- bonaventura — Saint, called the Seraphic Doctor. 1221–74, Italian Franciscan monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher; author of a Life of St Francis and Journey of the Soul to God. Feast day: July 14
- bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
- boojum tree — a tree, Idria columnaris, native to Baja California, having spreading spiny branches, deciduous leaves, and yellow flowers.
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- bouquetiere — an assortment of fresh vegetables
- bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
- boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
- break it up — stop fighting
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
- breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
- breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
- breunnerite — an iron-containing type of magnesite used in the manufacture of refractory bricks
- brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
- broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- brute force — physical strength, power
- bubble sort — A sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries "bubble upward" in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value. Because it is not very good relative to other methods and is the one typically stumbled on by naive and untutored programmers, hackers consider it the canonical example of a naive algorithm. The canonical example of a really *bad* algorithm is bogo-sort. A bubble sort might be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue only from brain damage or willful perversity.
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.