13-letter words containing b, u
- black buffalo — a buffalofish, Ictiobus niger, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainage systems south to Mexico.
- black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
- black currant — the small, round, blackish, edible fruit of a widely cultivated shrub, Ribes nigrum, of the saxifrage family.
- black muslims — (esp in the US) a political and religious movement of Black people who adopt the religious practices of Islam and seek to establish a new Black nation
- black mustard — a Eurasian plant, Brassica (or Sinapsis) nigra, with clusters of yellow flowers and pungent seeds from which the condiment mustard is made: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- black pudding — Black pudding is a thick sausage which has a black skin and is made from pork fat and pig's blood.
- black quarter — blackleg (def 1).
- black russian — a drink made from one part coffee liqueur and two parts vodka, served over ice.
- black studies — a program of studies in black history and culture offered by a school or college, often including Afro-American history and black literature.
- black vulture — the Eurasian vulture, Aegypius monachus, of the family Accipitridae
- blaenau gwent — a county borough of SE Wales, created in 1996 from NW Gwent. Administrative centre: Ebbw Vale. Pop: 68 900 (2003 est). Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- blame culture — the tendency to look for one person or organization that can be held responsible for a bad state of affairs, an accident, etc
- blanchisseuse — a washer-woman
- blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
- blast furnace — A blast furnace is a large structure in which iron ore is heated under pressure so that it melts and the pure iron metal separates out and can be collected.
- bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
- blood glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
- blood product — a pharmaceutical product made from blood, such as Factor VIII
- blood pudding — Blood pudding is another word for black pudding.
- blood sausage — a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients
- bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
- bloody sunday — (in Northern Ireland) 30th January 1972, when British soldiers shot dead thirteen marchers in Londonderry who were protesting against the UK government's policy of internment
- blow moulding — a process for moulding single-piece plastic objects in which a thermoplastic is extruded into a split mould and blown against its sides
- blue asbestos — a common name for the mineral crocidolite, a variety of asbestos found in Africa and Australia
- blue copperas — a salt, copper sulfate, CuSO 4 ⋅5H 2 O, occurring naturally as large transparent, deep-blue triclinic crystals, appearing in its anhydrous state as a white powder: used chiefly as a mordant, insecticide, fungicide, and in engraving.
- blue grosbeak — a grosbeak, Guiraca caerulea, of the U.S., Mexico, and Central America, the male of which is blue with two rusty bars on each wing.
- blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
- blue verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
- blue whistler — blue norther.
- blue-eyed boy — Someone's blue-eyed boy is a young man who they like better than anyone else and who therefore receives better treatment than other people.
- board measure — a system of units for measuring wood based on the board foot. 1980 board feet equal one standard
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- bodily injury — The bodily injury section of a liability insurance policy usually covers hospital bills for the injured parties as well as related expenses such as rehabilitation, medicines, and lost income.
- body and soul — You use body and soul to mean every part of you, including your mind and your emotions.
- body brussels — a carpet made with three-ply or four-ply worsted yarn drawn up in uncut loops to form a pattern over the entire surface (body Brussels) or made of worsted or woolen yarns on which a pattern is printed (tapestry Brussels)
- body building — the act or practice of exercising, lifting weights, etc., so as to develop the muscles of the body.
- body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
- boite de nuit — boîte.
- bolt up right — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
- bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
- bonus eventus — the ancient Roman god of agricultural prosperity.
- book of hours — a book used esp in monasteries during the Middle Ages that contained the prayers and offices of the canonical hours
- boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
- boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
- boris godunov — Boris Fedorovich [bawr-is fi-dawr-uh-vich,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs fɪˈdɔr ə vɪtʃ,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1552–1605, regent of Russia 1584–98 and czar 1598–1605.
- bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
- bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
- bottom-unique — In domain theory, a function f is bottom-unique if f x = bottom <=> x = bottom A bottom-unique function is also strict.
- boudoir grand — a domestic grand piano between 5 and 6 feet in length