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13-letter words containing u

  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • braggadocious — boastful
  • brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
  • brain surgery — operation on the brain
  • brain truster — a member of a brain trust; an important but usually unofficial adviser.
  • brandy butter — butter and sugar creamed together with brandy and served with Christmas pudding, etc
  • brass foundry — a foundry that makes things from brass
  • brass rubbing — A brass rubbing is a picture made by placing a piece of paper over a brass plate that has writing or a picture on it, and rubbing it with a wax crayon.
  • brass-rubbing — an antiquarian's technique for copying designs from incised brass memorial slabs and the like.
  • brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
  • brassicaceous — belonging to the plant family Brassicaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Cruciferae.
  • brazen it out — to act in a bold way as if one need not be ashamed
  • bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
  • break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
  • breeches buoy — a ring-shaped life buoy with a support in the form of a pair of short breeches, in which a person is suspended for safe transfer from a ship
  • brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
  • brilliant cut — a cut for gems
  • brilliant-cut — a cut intended to enhance the brilliance of a gem with the least possible sacrifice of weight, characterized by a form resembling two pyramids set base to base, truncated so as to give a broad table and a very small culet, and having from 18 to 104 facets, 58 being typical.
  • bristle brush — a brush made with animal bristles
  • brittany blue — a medium greenish blue.
  • broiler house — a building in which broiler chickens are reared in confined conditions
  • bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
  • brussels lace — a fine lace with a raised or appliqué design
  • brutalization — to make brutal.
  • bubble column — A bubble column is a reactor in which a gas bubbles up through a liquid or slurry.
  • bubble memory — a method of storing high volumes of data by the use of minute pockets of magnetism (bubbles) in a semiconducting material. The bubbles may be caused to migrate past a read head or to a buffer area for storage
  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • bûche de noël — a French Christmas cake made from a thin layer of spongecake that is rolled up and frosted so as to resemble a decorative Yule log
  • buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • bucket ladder — a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
  • buckeye state — Ohio (used as a nickname).
  • bud variation — any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.
  • budget period — the time which a budget covers
  • budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
  • buenas noches — good night
  • bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
  • buff-tip moth — a large European moth, Phalera bucephala, having violet-brown buff-tipped forewings held at rest around the body so that it resembles a snapped-off twig
  • buffalo berry — a shrub (genus Shepherdia) of the oleaster family, native to W North America, with silvery leaves
  • buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
  • buffalo cloth — a heavyweight woolen fabric constructed in twill weave and having a shaggy pile.
  • buffalo grass — a short grass, Buchloë dactyloides, growing on the dry plains of the central US
  • buffalo grove — a city in NE Illinois.
  • buffalo plaid — a plaid with large blocks formed by the intersection of two different-color yarns, typically red and black.
  • buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
  • buffer memory — a temporary holding area for data
  • buffet supper — supper at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
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