14-letter words containing bur
- albury-wodonga — a town in SE Australia, in S central New South Wales, on the Murray River: commercial centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 69 880 (2001)
- bedroom suburb — a commuter suburb, from which people travel to the city centre to work
- burghley house — an Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire: seat of the Cecil family; site of the annual Burghley Horse Trials
- burn-in period — 1. (testing) A factory soak test intended to increase the chance that components that fail early due to infant mortality will fail before the system leaves the factory. 2. (jargon) When one is so intensely involved in a new project that one forgets basic needs such as food, drink and sleep. Excessive burn-in can lead to burn-out. See hack mode, larval stage.
- burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
- burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
- bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
- burying beetle — a beetle of the genus Necrophorous, which buries the dead bodies of small animals by excavating beneath them, using the corpses as food for themselves and their larvae: family Silphidae
- burying ground — a burial ground.
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
- crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
- hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
- incense burner — container in which fragrance is burned
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- neubrandenburg — a city in Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, in NE Germany.
- overburdensome — excessively burdensome.
- redisbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- russet burbank — a brown-skinned, oblong potato having a mealy flesh with high starch content.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- slash and burn — Slash and burn is a method of farming that involves clearing land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it, farming there for a short time, and then moving on to clear a new piece of land.
- slash-and-burn — of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade.
- south suburban — a city in SE West Bengal, in E India: a suburb of Calcutta.
- spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
- st. petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
- sunburst clock — a clock with the pattern or design of a sun
- sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
- to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
- unbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
- union of burma — former official name of Burma.
- weather bureau — the former name of the U.S. National Weather Service.
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