10-letter words containing u, r, b, a
- baculiform — shaped like a rod
- bahawalpur — an industrial city in Pakistan: cotton, soap. Pop: 563 000 (2005 est)
- bahuvrihis — Plural form of bahuvrihi.
- ballbuster — Ball-breaker.
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- banqueters — Plural form of banqueter.
- bantu beer — a malted drink made from partly fermented and germinated millet
- bar-le-duc — Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- barbarious — (dated, before 20th century, now literary) barbarous, barbaric.
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- barbituric — of or derived from barbituric acid
- bardacious — bodacious.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- barium 140 — the radioactive isotope of barium having a mass number of 140 and a half-life of 12.8 days, used chiefly as a tracer.
- barkhausen — Heinrich Georg. 1881–1956, German physicist; discovered that ferromagnetic material in an increasing magnetic field becomes magnetized in discrete jumps (the Barkhausen effect)
- barnburner — something, esp. a closely contested sports event, that is very exciting, intense, dramatic, etc.
- barosaurus — Any of the genus Barosaurus of long-tailed, long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs.
- barotrauma — an injury caused by changes in atmospheric pressure, esp to the eardrums or lungs
- barquettes — a small, boat-shaped pastry shell filled with a savory or sweet mixture and served as an hors d'oeuvre or dessert.
- barracouta — a large predatory Pacific fish, Thyrsites atun, with a protruding lower jaw and strong teeth: family Gempylidae
- barracudas — Plural form of barracuda.
- barramunda — the edible Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, having paddle-like fins and a long body covered with large scales
- barramundi — any of several large edible Australian fishes esp the percoid species Lates calcarifer (family Centropomidae) of NE coastal waters or the freshwater species Scleropages leichardti (family Osteoglossidae) of Queensland
- 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
- bat around — to discuss (an idea, proposition, etc) informally
- battenburg — an oblong sponge cake divided longitudinally into four square sections, two coloured pink and two yellow, with an outer coating of marzipan
- baudelaire — Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)
- baumeister — Willi [vil-ee] /ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), 1889–1955, German painter.
- baumgarten — Alexander Gottlieb. 1714–62, German philosopher, noted for his pioneering work on aesthetics, a term that he originated
- bay laurel — a small evergreen Mediterranean laurel, Laurus nobilis, with glossy aromatic leaves, used for flavouring in cooking, and small blackish berries
- bear fruit — plant: produce fruit
- beauregard — P(ierre) G(ustave) T(outant) de1818-93; Confederate general
- beautifier — A person who or a thing which beautifies or makes beautiful.
- 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
- benzofuran — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C8H6O
- bestraught — distraught; distracted
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bicultural — having two cultures