10-letter words containing u, r, e
- autoroutes — Plural form of autoroute.
- autowinder — a battery-operated device for advancing the film in a camera automatically after each exposure
- autoworker — An autoworker is a person who works in the automobile manufacturing industry.
- auxochrome — a group of atoms that can be attached to a chromogen to convert it into a dye
- auxospores — Plural form of auxospore.
- avanturine — Alternative form of aventurine.
- aventurine — a dark-coloured glass, usually green or brown, spangled with fine particles of gold, copper, or some other metal
- aviculture — the keeping and rearing of birds
- avirulence — The state of being avirulent.
- awe-struck — filled with awe
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
- backburner — 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.
- ballbuster — Ball-breaker.
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- 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.
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- 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.
- barquettes — a small, boat-shaped pastry shell filled with a savory or sweet mixture and served as an hors d'oeuvre or dessert.
- 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
- 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
- becquerels — Plural form of becquerel.
- beefburger — A beefburger is the same as a hamburger.
- beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
- begrudgery — resentment of any person who has achieved success or wealth
- begrudging — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
- 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
- bell curve — a curve resembling the outline of a flared bell, usually representing a normal distribution
- bell-curve — bell-shaped curve.
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- ben-gurion — David, original name David Gruen. 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)
- benzofuran — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C8H6O
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013