10-letter words containing r, u
- bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- book group — A book group is a group of people who meet regularly to discuss books that they have read.
- 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.
- bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- bosun bird — tropic bird.
- bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
- bound form — a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def 2).
- 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.
- bow rudder — (in canoeing) a technique in which a paddler in the bow holds the paddle at an angle from the side of the bow, using it as a rudder to steer.
- box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
- box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
- box number — A box number is a number used as an address, for example one given by a newspaper for replies to a private advertisement, or one used by an organization for the letters sent to it.
- box supper — a social gathering, as at a church, at which box lunches donated by women are auctioned off to raise funds
- box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
- bra burner — a contemptuous term used to refer to an ardent or militant feminist or to someone perceived as such.
- bra-burner — a contemptuous term used to refer to an ardent or militant feminist or to someone perceived as such.
- brachyuran — any decapod crustacean of the group (formerly suborder) Brachyura, which includes the crabs
- 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).
- brake drum — the cast-iron drum attached to the hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle fitted with drum brakes
- branch cut — a method for selecting a single-valued function on a subset of the domain of a multiple-valued function of a complex variable.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
- brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
- breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
- breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- break bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
- break-bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
- bren (gun) — a light, fast, gas-operated machine gun used by the British army in WWII
- brian boru — ?941–1014, king of Ireland (1002–14): killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf
- bring suit — to institute legal action; sue
- broad jump — an exercise and athletic contest in which competitors try to jump the farthest distance possible from a standing start from a fixed board or mark
- broad-jump — long-jump.
- broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
- brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- brought on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers