11-letter words containing v, r
- bar mitzvah — A bar mitzvah is a ceremony that takes place on the thirteenth birthday of a Jewish boy, after which he is regarded as an adult.
- baranavichy — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
- baranovichi — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
- baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
- baskerville — a style of type
- bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
- be revenged — to get revenge
- beaver away — If you are beavering away at something, you are working very hard at it.
- beaver tail — a flat oval doughnut served fried and sugared
- beaverboard — a stiff light board of compressed wood fibre, used esp to surface partitions
- beaverbrook — 1st Baron, title of William Maxwell Aitken. 1879–1964, British newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician, born in Canada, whose newspapers included the Daily Express; minister of information (1918); minister of aircraft production (1940–41)
- beavercreek — a town in SW Ohio.
- beech grove — a grove of beech trees
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- behavioural — Behavioural means relating to the behaviour of a person or animal, or to the study of their behaviour.
- ben trovato — appropriate and characteristic even if untrue; happily invented or discovered.
- bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
- black ivory — Black slaves collectively
- blagonravov — Anatoli Arkadyevich [an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee uhr-kah-dyi-vyich] /ˈæn əˌtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi ʌrˈkɑ dyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1975, Russian scientist.
- blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- bonaventura — Saint, called the Seraphic Doctor. 1221–74, Italian Franciscan monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher; author of a Life of St Francis and Journey of the Soul to God. Feast day: July 14
- bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- book review — a description and analysis of a new book
- bow divider — a bow compass, each leg of which terminates in a needle, used to transfer measurements from one area of a drawing to another.
- brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
- brake lever — (on a bicycle) a lever on the handlebar that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
- brake servo — The brake servo is a device for increasing the pressure of the driver's foot on the brake pedal.
- bravo-river — Mexican Rio Bravo. a river flowing from SW Colorado through central New Mexico and along the boundary between Texas and Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
- brazzaville — the capital of Congo-Brazzaville, in the south on the River Congo. Pop: 1 153 000 (2005 est)
- break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- bridge view — a town in NE Illinois.
- broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- bubble over — to overflow, as boiling liquid
- bur chervil — a plant of the carrot family, Anthriscus caucalis, that is related to and resembles chervil
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- busy beaver — (theory) (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
- cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
- cakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
- caravanette — a motor vehicle with an area at the back that is equipped for living in
- caravanning — Caravanning is the activity of having a holiday in a caravan.
- caravansary — in the Near and Middle East, a kind of inn with a large central court, where caravans stop for the night