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11-letter words containing a, b, u, r, s

  • branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
  • brankursine — a bear's-breech, a type of acanthus plant
  • bread sauce — a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken
  • breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1.   (web)   Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2.   (programming)   Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
  • broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • 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
  • bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • burnt sugar — caramel
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • bushranging — the life of a bushranger
  • 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.
  • butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
  • byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
  • carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
  • chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
  • chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
  • circumbasal — surrounding the base.
  • construable — that can be construed
  • counterbase — a double bass
  • covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
  • crab cactus — Christmas cactus
  • curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
  • dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
  • dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
  • disbursable — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
  • disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
  • disturbance — the act of disturbing.
  • dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
  • double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
  • dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
  • durableness — Durability.
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