10-letter words containing a, b, u, r
- bubs grade — a baby
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
- buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
- bugger all — Bugger all is a rude way of saying 'nothing'.
- bugger-all — absolutely nothing; nothing at all: Those reckless investments left him with bugger-all.
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
- bullroarer — a wooden slat attached to a thong that makes a roaring sound when the thong is whirled: used esp by native Australians in religious rites
- bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
- bump start — a method of starting a motor vehicle by engaging a low gear with the clutch depressed and pushing it or allowing it to run down a hill until sufficient momentum has been acquired to turn the engine by releasing the clutch
- bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- buonarroti — Michelangelo.
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burger bar — a restaurant selling primarily hamburgers and similar dishes
- burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burma road — the route extending from Lashio in Burma (now Myanmar) to Chongqing in China, which was used by the Allies during World War II to supply military equipment to Chiang Kai-shek's forces in China
- bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
- burst page — banner
- burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
- bus master — (architecture) The device in a computer which is driving the address bus and bus control signals at some point in time. In a simple architecture only the (single) CPU can be bus master but this means that all communications between ("slave") I/O devices must involve the CPU. More sophisticated architectures allow other capable devices (or multiple CPUs) to take turns at controling the bus. This allows, for example, a network controller card to access a disk controller directly while the CPU performs other tasks which do not require the bus, e.g. fetching code from its cache. Note that any device can drive data onto the data bus when the CPU reads from that device, but only the bus master drives the address bus and control signals. See also distributed kernel.
- bush grass — a coarse reedlike grass, Calamagrostis epigejos, 1–11⁄2 metres (3–41⁄2 ft) high that grows on damp clay soils in Europe and temperate parts of Asia
- bushbeater — a person who conducts a thorough search to recruit talented people, as for an athletic team.
- bushhammer — a hammer with small pyramids projecting from its working face, used for dressing stone
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- butt-strap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- butterball — a chubby or fat person
- button ear — a dog's ear that folds forward completely.
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
- carburized — Simple past tense and past participle of carburize.
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.