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

  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
  • 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
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • busy beaver — (theory)   (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
  • butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
  • byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
  • cactus pear — tuna2 .
  • cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
  • calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
  • calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
  • can crusher — a device which presses empty metal food containers in order to reduce their volume before they are disposed of
  • cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
  • caper sauce — sauce flavoured with capers
  • carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
  • carduaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Carduaceae, a subfamily of composite plants that includes the thistle
  • carefullest — Superlative form of careful.
  • carefulness — cautious in one's actions: Be careful when you cross the street.
  • caricatures — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
  • carniferous — bearing flesh.
  • cartularies — Plural form of cartulary.
  • casual wear — informal articles of clothing or footwear
  • casual-wear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
  • cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
  • cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
  • cavernulous — possessing or being full of small cavities
  • ceteosaurus — a large dinosaur of the Jurassic period
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
  • chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
  • chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
  • circularise — (British) alternative spelling of circularize.
  • clavigerous — bearing a key or club
  • coelurosaur — any of various small to very large bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs belonging to the suborder Theropoda, active in the Triassic and Cretaceous periods; Tyrannosaurus was a coelurosaur, and birds are thought to have evolved from small coelurosaurs
  • coinsurance — a method of insurance by which property is insured for a certain percentage of its value by a commercial insurance policy while the owner assumes liability for the remainder
  • connaisseur — A specialist of a given field, especially in one of the fine arts or in a matter of taste: a connoisseur.
  • construable — that can be construed
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