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10-letter words containing u, b, e, r

  • bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
  • blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
  • bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
  • blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
  • blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
  • blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
  • board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
  • boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
  • bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
  • 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.
  • bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
  • bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
  • borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • brake drum — the cast-iron drum attached to the hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle fitted with drum brakes
  • 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.
  • 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
  • brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
  • brunetiere — Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahn] /fɛr diˈnɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1849–1906, French literary critic.
  • brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
  • brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
  • bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
  • brush fire — a fire in brushwood
  • brush-fire — limited in scope, area, or importance, as some labor disputes or local skirmishes.
  • brushwheel — a toothless wheel with bristles attached to its circumference, used to turn another wheel by friction
  • brusquerie — brusqueness; curtness
  • bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
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