10-letter words containing u, r, a, s
- barosaurus — Any of the genus Barosaurus of long-tailed, long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs.
- barquettes — a small, boat-shaped pastry shell filled with a savory or sweet mixture and served as an hors d'oeuvre or dessert.
- barracudas — Plural form of barracuda.
- barratrous — (legal) Tainted with, or constituting, barratry.
- barrelfuls — Plural form of barrelful.
- baseburner — a stove into which coal is automatically fed from a hopper above the fire chamber
- baserunner — a baseball player in the act of running around bases
- baumeister — Willi [vil-ee] /ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), 1889–1955, German painter.
- beaux arts — noting or pertaining to a style of architecture, popularly associated with the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, that prevailed in France in the late 19th century and that was adopted in the U.S. and elsewhere c1900, characterized by the free and eclectic use and adaptation of French architectural features of the 16th through 18th centuries combined so as to give a massive, elaborate, and often ostentatious effect, and also by the use of symmetrical plans preferably allowing vast amounts of interior space.
- beaux-arts — relating to the classical decorative style, esp that of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris
- beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- belisarius — ?505–565 ad, Byzantine general under Justinian I. He recovered North Africa from the Vandals and Italy from the Ostrogoths and led forces against the Persians
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- bestraught — distraught; distracted
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
- bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
- bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- 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.
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bubs grade — a baby
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
- bump start — a method of starting a motor vehicle by engaging a low gear with the clutch depressed and pushing it or allowing it to run down a hill until sufficient momentum has been acquired to turn the engine by releasing the clutch
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
- burst page — banner
- burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
- bus master — (architecture) The device in a computer which is driving the address bus and bus control signals at some point in time. In a simple architecture only the (single) CPU can be bus master but this means that all communications between ("slave") I/O devices must involve the CPU. More sophisticated architectures allow other capable devices (or multiple CPUs) to take turns at controling the bus. This allows, for example, a network controller card to access a disk controller directly while the CPU performs other tasks which do not require the bus, e.g. fetching code from its cache. Note that any device can drive data onto the data bus when the CPU reads from that device, but only the bus master drives the address bus and control signals. See also distributed kernel.
- bush grass — a coarse reedlike grass, Calamagrostis epigejos, 1–11⁄2 metres (3–41⁄2 ft) high that grows on damp clay soils in Europe and temperate parts of Asia
- bushbeater — a person who conducts a thorough search to recruit talented people, as for an athletic team.
- bushhammer — a hammer with small pyramids projecting from its working face, used for dressing stone
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- butt-strap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- calcareous — of, containing, or resembling calcium carbonate; chalky
- camarasaur — a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur of the genus Camarasaurus and closely related genera, having a small head, long neck, and short forelimbs, and reaching a length of 40 feet (12.2 meters); until 1981 the type specimen of Brontosaurus excelcus was wrongly reconstructed with a Camarasaurus skull.