10-letter words containing i, u, r
- bardacious — bodacious.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- barium 140 — the radioactive isotope of barium having a mass number of 140 and a half-life of 12.8 days, used chiefly as a tracer.
- barramundi — any of several large edible Australian fishes esp the percoid species Lates calcarifer (family Centropomidae) of NE coastal waters or the freshwater species Scleropages leichardti (family Osteoglossidae) of Queensland
- baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
- baumeister — Willi [vil-ee] /ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), 1889–1955, German painter.
- bear fruit — plant: produce fruit
- beautifier — A person who or a thing which beautifies or makes beautiful.
- begrudging — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- belisarius — ?505–565 ad, Byzantine general under Justinian I. He recovered North Africa from the Vandals and Italy from the Ostrogoths and led forces against the Persians
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- ben-gurion — David, original name David Gruen. 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- berryfruit — any edible berry such as a raspberry, boysenberry, blackcurrant, or strawberry
- bertolucci — Bernardo (berˈnardo). born 1940, Italian film director: his films include The Spider's Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970), 1900 (1976), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and The Dreamers (2003)
- bi-curious — considering experimenting with bisexuality
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bicultural — having two cultures
- bifluoride — an acid salt of hydrofluoric acid containing the group HF 2 -, as ammonium bifluoride, NH 4 HF 2.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- big laurel — the rhododendron.
- bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
- bijouterie — jewellery esteemed for the delicacy of the work rather than the value of the materials
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
- blubbering — Zoology. the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
- blue ridge — a mountain range extending SW from N Virginia to N Georgia: part of the Appalachian Mountains.
- blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
- blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
- blurringly — in a manner which causes blurring
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
- bois brule — métis (def 2).
- bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
- boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
- boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
- bosun bird — tropic bird.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
- bourbonism — support for the rule of the Bourbons, the European royal line that ruled in France, Spain, and Naples and Sicily at various times in the late 16th to early 20th centuries
- bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
- bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
- brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).