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14-letter words containing b, u

  • black bullhead — a common freshwater catfish, Ictalurus melas, of North America, considered by some to be a food delicacy.
  • black mulberry — a small deciduous tree, Morus nigra, with small leaves, producing edible fruit
  • black selenium — an allotropic form of selenium occurring as a black, amorphous, water-insoluble, light-sensitive powder: used chiefly in photoelectric cells.
  • black squirrel — a fox squirrel or gray squirrel in that color phase in which the fur is black.
  • black-and-blue — (of the skin) discoloured, as from a bruise
  • bleat on about — If you say that someone is bleating on about something, you mean that they are talking about it a great deal in a way which makes them sound weak and irritating.
  • bloc québécois — (in Canada) a political party that advocates autonomy for Quebec
  • block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
  • block mountain — a mountain produced by faulting and the uplifting of large blocks of rock
  • blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
  • blood grouping — the ascertainment of a person's blood group
  • blood pressure — the pressure exerted by the blood on the inner walls of the arteries, being relative to the elasticity and diameter of the vessels and the force of the heartbeat
  • blood-and-guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
  • blood-curdling — A blood-curdling sound or story is very frightening and horrible.
  • blue dandelion — chicory (def 1).
  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • blue straggler — one of a small group of blue stars within a cluster that falls near the main sequence even though other stars of its color have evolved off the main sequence.
  • blue-arsed fly — a blowfly; bluebottle
  • blue-eyed mary — a blue-flowered boraginaceous plant, Omphalodes verna, native to S Europe and cultivated in Britain
  • blue-eyed soul — soul music written and performed by White singers in a style derived from the blues
  • bluebottle fly — any of several iridescent blue blow flies, especially those of the genus Calliphora, some of which are parasitic on domestic animals.
  • blurred vision — a condition which makes it impossible to see clearly
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • bobbin turning — turning of furniture legs, stretchers, etc., to resemble a continuous row of bobbins.
  • bobo-dioulasso — a city in W Burkina Faso. Pop: 396 000 (2005 est)
  • body beautiful — a beautiful body
  • bone structure — the skeletal composition of a human or animal
  • bone turquoise — fossilized bone or tooth stained blue with iron phosphate and used as a gemstone
  • bonus question — a question in a quiz which earns a contestant extra points
  • bophuthatswana — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in N South Africa: consisted of six separate areas; declared independent by South Africa in 1977 although this was not internationally recognized; abolished in 1993. Capital: Mmabatho
  • border dispute — a disagreement between countries about where the border between them should be drawn
  • borrow trouble — to worry about anything needlessly or before one has sufficient cause
  • boston lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce
  • bottle turning — the turning of the legs of chairs, tables, etc., in manufacturing to give certain sections an ornamental, bottlelike form.
  • bouillon spoon — a spoon with a round bowl, smaller than a soup spoon.
  • boulder canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.
  • bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
  • bounce message — A notification message returned to the sender by a site unable to relay e-mail to the intended recipient or the next link in a bang path. Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled user name or a down relay site. Bounce messages can themselves fail, with occasionally ugly results; see sorcerer's apprentice mode and software laser. The terms "bounce mail" and "barfmail" are also common.
  • bound moisture — Bound moisture is liquid in a solid, which exerts a vapor pressure that is less than the pure liquid would do at the same temperature.
  • bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
  • boundary fence — a fence between properties
  • boundary layer — the layer of fluid closest to the surface of a solid past which the fluid flows: it has a lower rate of flow than the bulk of the fluid because of its adhesion to the solid
  • boundary rider — an employee on a sheep or cattle station whose job is to maintain fences in good repair and to prevent stock from straying
  • boundary value — boundary value analysis
  • boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
  • boutique hotel — A boutique hotel is a small, high-quality and usually attractive hotel.
  • bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
  • brass knuckles — linked metal rings or a metal bar with holes for the fingers, worn for rough fighting
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • brazil current — a warm current in the Atlantic Ocean flowing SE along the E coast of Brazil.
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