11-letter words containing ue
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- blue velvet — a mixture of paregoric and Pyribenzamine taken by vein as an illicit drug.
- blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
- blue-jeaned — wearing blue jeans.
- blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
- blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
- blue-rinsed — (of hair) tinted silver-blue
- blueblossom — a shrub, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, of the buckthorn family, abundant in the western U.S., having finely toothed oblong leaves and lilaclike clusters of blue flowers.
- bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
- bonus issue — an issue of shares made by a company without charge and distributed pro rata among existing shareholders
- bouquetiere — an assortment of fresh vegetables
- brusqueness — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
- bunyanesque — of immense size or stature, as ascribed to Paul Bunyan or to the other characters, exploits, etc., in the legends about him.
- burlesquely — in a burlesque manner
- bush league — In baseball, a bush league is the same as a minor league.
- bush-league — inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.
- cacqueteuse — a narrow, upright armchair of 16th-century France, having widely splayed arms and a very narrow back.
- casein glue — a glue made from casein, used for plywood, cabinetwork, etc.
- catafalques — Plural form of catafalque.
- cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
- che guevara — Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Che") 1928–67, Cuban revolutionist and political leader, born in Argentina.
- cheque book — A cheque book is a book of cheques which your bank gives you so that you can pay for things by cheque.
- cheque card — In Britain, a cheque card or a cheque guarantee card is a small plastic card given to you by your bank and which you have to show when you are paying for something by cheque or when you are cashing a cheque at another bank.
- cheque stub — the part of a cheque that is retained as a record of its purpose
- chequerwise — in the manner of a chequerboard
- chequerwork — any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern
- cinquecento — the 16th century, esp in reference to Italian art, architecture, or literature
- cinquefoils — Plural form of cinquefoil.
- cire perdue — a method of casting bronze, in which a mould is formed around a wax pattern, which is subsequently melted and drained away
- cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
- communiques — Misspelling of communiqués.
- confluences — Plural form of confluence.
- confluently — in a confluent manner
- congruently — agreeing; accordant; congruous.
- conquerable — Capable of being conquered or subdued.
- consequence — The consequences of something are the results or effects of it.
- consequents — Plural form of consequent.
- constituent — A constituent is someone who lives in a particular constituency, especially someone who is able to vote in an election.
- consuetudes — Plural form of consuetude.
- continuedly — in a continued manner
- countersued — Simple past tense and past participle of countersue.
- cued speech — a method of communication in which a speaker uses a system of manual cues to aid a lipreader by clarifying potentially ambiguous mouth movements with hand gestures.
- danish blue — a strong-tasting white cheese with blue veins
- dauerschlaf — a form of therapy, now rarely used, that involves the use of drugs to induce long periods of deep sleep.
- delinquency — Delinquency is criminal behaviour, especially that of young people.
- delinquents — Plural form of delinquent.
- deliquesced — Simple past tense and past participle of deliquesce.