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12-letter words containing u, a

  • buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
  • buenos aires — the capital of Argentina, a major port and industrial city on the Río de la Plata estuary: became capital in 1880; university (1821). Pop: 13 349 000 (2005 est)
  • buffalo bill — nickname of William Frederick Cody. 1846–1917, US showman who toured Europe and the US with his famous Wild West Show
  • buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
  • buffalo fish — any of a genus (Ictiobus) of large, humpbacked, freshwater sucker fishes found in North America
  • buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
  • buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
  • buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
  • buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
  • buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
  • bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
  • bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
  • bull mastiff — a large powerful breed of dog with a short usually fawn or brindle coat, developed by crossing the bulldog with the mastiff
  • bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
  • bullamakanka — an imaginary very remote and backward place
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
  • bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
  • bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
  • bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
  • bunny rabbit — rabbit
  • buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
  • bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
  • burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burj khalifa — a slender tapering skyscraper in Dubai; completed in 2009; the world's tallest man-made structure, standing at 828m (2716 ft)
  • burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
  • burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
  • burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
  • burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • burseraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Burseraceae, a tropical family of trees and shrubs having compound leaves and resin or balsam in their stems. The family includes bdellium and some balsams
  • bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
  • bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
  • bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
  • bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • butter paper — a semi-transparent, waterproof paper used for wrapping butter, etc
  • butter sauce — a sauce made of melted butter, often diluted with water, sometimes thickened with flour or egg yolk, or both, and seasoned with lemon juice.
  • button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
  • butyric acid — type of acid
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
  • buzzards bay — arm of the Atlantic, on the SE coast of Mass., at the base of Cape Cod peninsula
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
  • cacao butter — cocoa butter
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