11-letter words containing bur
- hurly-burly — noisy disorder and confusion; commotion; uproar; tumult.
- imbursement — (obsolete) The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- kookaburras — Plural form of kookaburra.
- lime burner — a person who makes lime by burning or calcining limestone, shells, etc.
- ludwigsburg — a city in Baden-Württemberg state, SW Germany.
- martinsburg — a city in NE West Virginia.
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- microbursts — Plural form of microburst.
- newburyport — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- nonburnable — incapable of being burned, not combustible
- oil-burning — that uses paraffin, esp as a domestic fuel
- overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
- overburthen — to overburden
- parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- pietersburg — capital of Northern Transvaal province, South Africa: pop. 26,000
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
- pressburger — Emeric (ˈɛmərɪk). 1902–88, Hungarian film writer and producer, living in Britain: best known for his collaboration (1942–57) with Michael Powell. Films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), I Know Where I'm Going (1945), and A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
- raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
- recarburize — to add carbon to (steel), as in an open-hearth furnace, as by adding pig iron.
- royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
- spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- suburbanism — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
- suburbanize — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
- tamburlaine — Tamerlane.
- unburnished — to polish (a surface) by friction.
- wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- warrensburg — a town in central Missouri.
- wilkinsburg — a borough in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.