10-letter words containing u, r, e
- berryfruit — any edible berry such as a raspberry, boysenberry, blackcurrant, or strawberry
- bertolucci — Bernardo (berˈnardo). born 1940, Italian film director: his films include The Spider's Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970), 1900 (1976), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and The Dreamers (2003)
- beryl blue — a light greenish blue.
- 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.
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bifluoride — an acid salt of hydrofluoric acid containing the group HF 2 -, as ammonium bifluoride, NH 4 HF 2.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- big laurel — the rhododendron.
- bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
- bijouterie — jewellery esteemed for the delicacy of the work rather than the value of the materials
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
- bladdernut — any temperate shrub or small tree of the genus Staphylea, esp S. pinnata of S Europe, that has bladder-like seed pods: family Staphyleaceae
- blubbering — Zoology. the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
- blue alert — (in military or civilian defense) an alert following the first, or yellow, alert, in which air attack seems probable.
- blue beret — an informal name for a soldier of a United Nations peacekeeping force
- blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
- blue crane — the great blue heron.
- blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
- blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- blue heron — any of the American varieties of heron with bluish or bluish-gray plumage, as the great blue heron.
- blue peter — a signal flag of blue with a white square at the centre, displayed by a vessel about to leave port
- blue racer — a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
- blue ridge — a mountain range extending SW from N Virginia to N Georgia: part of the Appalachian Mountains.
- blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
- blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
- blue-curls — any of a genus (Trichostema) of plants of the mint family, with downy, narrow leaves and blue flowers
- blue-green — a color about midway between blue and green in the spectrum.
- blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
- blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
- 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.
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
- blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
- boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
- bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
- bois brule — métis (def 2).
- bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
- boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
- bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
- bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.