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11-letter words containing s, e, r, u

  • blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
  • bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
  • blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
  • blue screen — a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence
  • blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
  • blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
  • blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • blunderbuss — an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  • boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
  • 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.
  • bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
  • bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
  • bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1.   (web)   Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2.   (programming)   Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
  • 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
  • brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
  • 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.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • 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
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • brusqueness — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
  • 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.
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
  • bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • bumbershoot — an umbrella
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • burlesquely — in a burlesque manner
  • burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
  • burne-jones — Sir Edward. 1833–98, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer of stained-glass windows and tapestries
  • burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
  • burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • bus shelter — A bus shelter is a bus stop that has a roof and at least one open side.
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