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10-letter words containing b, e, a, u

  • blue alert — (in military or civilian defense) an alert following the first, or yellow, alert, in which air attack seems probable.
  • blue angel — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
  • blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
  • blue crane — the great blue heron.
  • blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
  • blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
  • blue flash — green flash.
  • blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
  • blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
  • blue jeans — Blue jeans are the same as jeans.
  • blue plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
  • blue racer — a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
  • blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
  • blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
  • blue state — a state of the U.S. that usually votes Democratic.
  • blue wavey — See under wavey.
  • blue whale — the largest mammal: a widely distributed bluish-grey whalebone whale, Sibbaldus (or Balaenoptera) musculus, closely related and similar to the rorquals: family Balaenopteridae
  • blue-black — Something that is blue-black is bluish black in colour.
  • blue-plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
  • blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
  • bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
  • bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
  • bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
  • blues band — a band that plays the blues
  • bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
  • board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
  • boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
  • book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
  • bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
  • bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
  • bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bra burner — a contemptuous term used to refer to an ardent or militant feminist or to someone perceived as such.
  • bra-burner — a contemptuous term used to refer to an ardent or militant feminist or to someone perceived as such.
  • brake drum — the cast-iron drum attached to the hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle fitted with drum brakes
  • brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
  • breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
  • breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
  • breadstuff — any form of bread
  • break bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • break-bulk — of or relating to packaged cargo, usually manufactured goods, that is marked for individual consignees and has to be loaded and unloaded piece by piece at each point of transfer. Compare bulk1 (def 3), containerization.
  • brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
  • bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
  • bubble car — (in Britain, formerly) a small car, often having three wheels, with a transparent bubble-shaped top
  • bubble tea — a cold drink, originally from Taiwan, of tea infused with fruit flavouring, shaken to produce bubbles, and served over tapioca pearls in a clear cup. It is usually drunk through a very wide straw
  • bubblehead — a frivolous person
  • bubs grade — a baby
  • bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
  • buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
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