Big Huge Thesaurus

bare bones

noun

• center
• core
• essence
• gist
• heart
• heart and soul
• inwardness
• kernel
• marrow
• meat
• nitty-gritty
• nub
• pith
• substance
• sum

sounds kind of like

• braveness
• briefing
• briefness
• brya ebenus
• burbank
• burping