11-letter words containing u, n, e, r
- arc furnace — a furnace in which the charge is heated by an electric arc
- archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
- arduousness — requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking.
- arenicolous — growing or living in sand or sandy places
- argumentive — argumentative
- arse around — If you say that someone is arsing around or arsing about, you mean that they are behaving in a silly, irritating way instead of getting something done.
- art nouveau — Art Nouveau is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1890s. It is characterized by flowing lines and patterns of flowers and leaves.
- art student — a person studying art
- assuredness — guaranteed; sure; certain; secure: an assured income.
- athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
- atramentous — similar to or as black as ink
- attenuators — Plural form of attenuator.
- auctioneers — Plural form of auctioneer.
- austereness — The state of being austere; harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.
- austronesia — the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
- autochanger — a device in a record player or CD player that enables a small stack of records or CDs to be dropped automatically onto the turntable or player tray one at a time and played separately
- autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
- autozeroing — (electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
- auxanometer — an instrument that measures the linear growth of plant shoots
- averruncate — to avert, to turn away
- back burner — If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important.
- back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
- back-burner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- baconburger — a hamburger topped with strips of cooked bacon.
- bancassurer — a bank that sells insurance products
- bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
- barn-burner — Informal. something that is highly exciting, impressive, etc.: The All Stars game was a real barnburner.
- baroqueness — The state or condition of being baroque.
- barquentine — a sailing ship of three or more masts rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the others
- base runner — any member of the team at bat who has reached first, second, or third base safely or is trying to reach a base or home plate
- baserunning — the act of running around bases
- baton rouge — the capital of Louisiana, in the SE part on the Mississippi River. Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
- baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
- beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- beckenbauer — Franz. born 1945, German footballer: team captain when West Germany won the World Cup (1974): manager of West Germany (1984–90), coaching the team to success in the 1990 World Cup
- been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
- belarussian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Belarus, its people, or their language
- bellfounder — a foundry worker who casts bells
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- belowground — underground
- bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
- beurre noir — a sauce of darkly browned butter, sometimes flavored with herbs, vinegar, etc.
- bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)
- blue marlin — a large marlin, Makaira nigricans, occurring worldwide in warm and temperate seas, highly prized in sportfishing and as a food fish.
- blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
- blue ribbon — A blue ribbon is the same as a blue riband.
- blue runner — a carangid fish of American Atlantic waters, Caranx crysos