11-letter words containing o, u, b
- bosom buddy — close friend
- boss around — order about
- boston bull — Boston terrier
- bottle club — a so-called club in which patrons, nominally members, are served liquor from bottles purportedly belonging to them, without regard to liquor control laws
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- bottom plug — A bottom plug is a bridge or cement seal placed near the bottom of the well in order to shut it off.
- boudin noir — a dark-colored boiled sausage made with pork and blood, and often highly spiced
- boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam
- boumedienne — Houari (ˈhaʊərɪ). 1927–78, Algerian statesman and soldier: president of Algeria (1965–78) after overthrowing Ben Bella in a coup
- bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
- bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
- bound up in — If something is bound up in a particular form or place, it is fixed in that form or contained in that place.
- boundedness — the quality of being bounded
- bouquetiere — an assortment of fresh vegetables
- bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
- bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
- bourgeoning — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
- bourguignon — a sauce made with red wine, onions, and seasoning
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- 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
- brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- 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.
- bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- bring round — to restore (a person) to consciousness, esp after a faint
- broad gauge — a railway track with a greater distance between the lines than the standard gauge of 561⁄2 inches (about 1.44 metres) used now by most mainline railway systems
- broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
- broad-gauge — Railroads. of or relating to equipment designed for a railroad having track of a broad gauge: broad-gauge rolling stock.
- 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.
- bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
- brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
- brook trout — a North American freshwater trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, introduced in Europe and valued as a food and game fish
- brown flour — wheat flour that uses approximately 85% of the whole grain
- brown pound — the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
- brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
- brown trout — a common brownish variety of the trout Salmo trutta that occurs in the rivers of N Europe and has been successfully introduced in North America
- brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
- brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
- brush broom — Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom.
- brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- brute force — physical strength, power
- bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems