11-letter words containing w, e, r, b
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- bridal wear — clothes specially designed for brides
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
- bridge view — a town in NE Illinois.
- bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
- bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
- brocken bow — anticorona.
- broken wind — heaves
- broken-down — A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it.
- brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
- browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- brown algae — any algae of the phylum Phaeophyta, such as the wracks and kelps, which contain a brown pigment in addition to chlorophyll
- brown betty — a baked apple pudding made with butter, spices, sugar, and bread crumbs
- brown bread — bread made with wholemeal flour, or with ingredients that give it a brown colour
- brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
- brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
- brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
- brown paper — a coarse unbleached paper used for wrapping
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
- brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
- brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
- browned off — If you say that you are browned off, you mean that you are annoyed and depressed.
- browned-off — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
- brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
- bus network — (networking) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
- cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
- counterblow — a retaliatory blow
- crewmembers — Plural form of crewmember.
- crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
- crowberries — Plural form of crowberry.
- crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- embowerment — the act of embowering
- eyebrowless — having no eyebrows
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.