9-letter words containing u, r, e
- bum steer — false or misleading information or advice
- bundaberg — a town in E Australia, near the E coast of Queensland: centre of a sugar-growing area, with a nearby deep-water port. Pop: 44 556 (2001)
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- bunkerage — the act of bunkering a vessel.
- bunkering — a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box: a coal bunker.
- buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- burdenous — burdensome
- burgeoned — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
- burgesses — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- burladero — a safe area for the bull-fighter in a bull ring
- burlesque — A burlesque is a performance or a piece of writing that makes fun of something by copying it in an exaggerated way. You can also use burlesque to refer to a situation in real life that is like this.
- burleycue — burlesque (def 3).
- burn rate — The burn rate of a startup company is a measure of how fast it uses up its capital before becoming profitable.
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- burnsides — thick side whiskers worn with a moustache and clean-shaven chin
- burrstone — buhrstone
- burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
- burthened — burden1 .
- bus error — (processor) A fatal failure in the execution of a machine language instruction resulting from the processor detecting an anomalous condition on its bus. Such conditions include invalid address alignment (accessing a multi-byte number at an odd address), accessing a physical address that does not correspond to any device, or some other device-specific hardware error. A bus error triggers a processor-level exception which Unix translates into a "SIGBUS" signal which, if not caught, will terminate the current process.
- bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
- butcher's — a look
- butchered — a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
- butcherer — a person who butchers
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
- butlerage — a butler's position or rank
- butter up — If someone butters you up, they try to please you because they want you to help or support them.
- butterbur — a plant of the Eurasian genus Petasites with fragrant whitish or purple flowers, woolly stems, and leaves formerly used to wrap butter: family Asteraceae (composites)
- buttercup — A buttercup is a small plant with bright yellow flowers.
- butterfat — the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made, consisting of a mixture of glycerides, mainly butyrin, olein, and palmitin
- butterfly — A butterfly is an insect with large colourful wings and a thin body.
- butterine — an artificial butter made partly from milk
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- butternut — a walnut tree, Juglans cinerea of E North America
- buzz term — buzzword.
- by nature — essentially or innately
- by repute — If you know someone by repute, you have never met them but you have heard or read about them.
- by return — by the next post back to the sender
- calembour — a pun
- calenture — a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- cankerous — having cankers
- cannelure — a groove or fluting, esp one around the cylindrical part of a bullet
- capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbuncle — A carbuncle is a large swelling under the skin.