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11-letter words containing u, r, i

  • bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
  • blind trust — A blind trust is a financial arrangement in which someone's investments are managed without the person knowing where the money is invested. Blind trusts are used especially by people such as members of parliament, so that they cannot be accused of using their position to make money unfairly.
  • blue marlin — a large marlin, Makaira nigricans, occurring worldwide in warm and temperate seas, highly prized in sportfishing and as a food fish.
  • blue riband — If someone or something wins the blue riband in a competition, they win first prize. The prize is sometimes in the shape of a blue ribbon.
  • blue ribbon — A blue ribbon is the same as a blue riband.
  • blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
  • blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
  • blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
  • boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
  • bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
  • boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
  • boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
  • bombing run — the part of a flight of a bomber aircraft that brings it to the point over a target at which its bombs are released
  • boudin noir — a dark-colored boiled sausage made with pork and blood, and often highly spiced
  • boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
  • bouquetiere — an assortment of fresh vegetables
  • bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
  • bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
  • bourgeoning — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
  • bourguignon — a sauce made with red wine, onions, and seasoning
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
  • brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
  • brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
  • brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
  • brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • break it up — stop fighting
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • breunnerite — an iron-containing type of magnesite used in the manufacture of refractory bricks
  • brick-built — made of bricks
  • brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
  • bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
  • bring round — to restore (a person) to consciousness, esp after a faint
  • bringing-up — to carry, convey, conduct, or cause (someone or something) to come with, to, or toward the speaker: Bring the suitcase to my house. He brought his brother to my office.
  • british gum — dextrin.
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
  • brucellosis — an infectious disease of cattle, goats, dogs, and pigs, caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella and transmittable to humans (e.g. by drinking contaminated milk): symptoms include fever, chills, and severe headache
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • buck rabbit — Welsh rabbit with either an egg or a piece of toast on top
  • bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
  • bulimarexia — bulimia (sense 2)
  • bull riding — a rodeo event in which a contestant tries to ride a bucking bull for eight seconds, with one hand holding a rope tied to a band around the bull's chest.
  • bullfighter — A bullfighter is the person who tries to injure or kill the bull in a bullfight.
  • bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • bullterrier — a breed of dog
  • bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
  • buon giorno — good day; hello
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