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11-letter words containing er

  • broomballer — a person who plays broomball
  • brotherhood — Brotherhood is the affection and loyalty that you feel for people who you have something in common with.
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • brown paper — a coarse unbleached paper used for wrapping
  • brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
  • brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • bubble over — to overflow, as boiling liquid
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • buffer fund — money put aside to help alleviate the adverse short-term effects of something
  • buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
  • bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
  • bull header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • bull-roarer — a wooden slat that produces a roaring sound when whirled around one's head on the end of a string or thong, used by some peoples of the world in religious ceremonies and by others as a toy.
  • 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
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • bumbershoot — an umbrella
  • bumbleberry — a mixture of berries used in pie fillings and in preserves
  • bumper crop — large harvest
  • bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
  • bumper pool — a pool game played on a small, often octagonally shaped table with two pockets, having strategically placed cushioned pegs on the playing surface, usually necessitating bank shots to sink balls.
  • 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
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • 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
  • bur chervil — a plant of the carrot family, Anthriscus caucalis, that is related to and resembles chervil
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • burn center — a specialized medical facility that provides comprehensive care for patients with burn injuries.
  • burnt umber — a brown pigment obtained by heating umber
  • bus shelter — A bus shelter is a bus stop that has a roof and at least one open side.
  • 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.
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
  • bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • 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.
  • butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
  • butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
  • butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
  • butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
  • butter tart — a kind of tart made with butter, brown sugar, and raisins
  • butter tree — any of several trees, as the shea, whose fatty seeds yield a butterlike substance
  • butterbread — bread spread with butter.
  • buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
  • butterfield — William. 1814–1900, British architect of the Gothic Revival; his buildings include Keble College, Oxford (1870) and All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1849–59)
  • butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness
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