9-letter words containing a, b, i, u
- busticate — to break
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
- butt-dial — Also, butt dial. a call made in this way: Sorry, it must have been a butt-dial.
- byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carburize — to increase the carbon content of (the surface of a low-carbon steel) so that the surface can be hardened by heat treatment
- cat-built — (of a sailing vessel) having a bluff bow and straight stern without a figurehead.
- cetuximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat cancer
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- connubial — of or relating to marriage; conjugal
- corbicula — pollen basket.
- coulibiac — a Russian dish of rich pastry with a filling of salmon or other fish and mushrooms, onions, egg, buckwheat, dill, etc.
- courbaril — a tropical American leguminous tree, Hymenaea courbaril. Its wood is a useful timber and its gum is a source of copal
- cubically — In a cubic manner.
- danburite — a rare mineral, calcium borosilicate, CaB 2 Si 2 O 8 , occurring in pegmatite in yellow or colorless crystals resembling topaz.
- daubingly — in a coating or smearing manner
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- dilutable — capable of being diluted
- disabused — Simple past tense and past participle of disabuse.
- disabuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disabuse.
- disbursal — The act of disbursing money.
- dubitable — open to doubt; doubtful; uncertain.
- dubitably — Defn en.
- dubitancy — doubt; uncertainty
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- equitable — Fair and impartial.
- equitably — In an equitable manner.
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- excalibur — (in Arthurian legend) the magic sword of King Arthur
- fabricius — Johan Christian [yoh-hahn kris-chuh n;; Danish yoh-hahn kris-tyahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tʃən;; Danish yoʊˈhɑn ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1743–1808, Danish entomologist.
- fabritius — Carel [kah-ruh l] /ˈkɑ rəl/ (Show IPA), 1622–54, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- fabulists — Plural form of fabulist.
- faribault — a city in SE Minnesota.
- febricula — a slight and short fever, especially when of obscure causation.
- figurable — Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
- fruit bat — any fruit-eating bat, especially of the suborder Megachiroptera, of tropical regions throughout the Old World, typically having erect, catlike ears and large eyes adapted for night vision, and either tailless or with a rudimentary tail, the numerous species ranging in wingspan from 10 inches to 5 feet (25 cm to 1.5 meters).
- funabashi — a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.
- futabatei — Shimei [shee-mey] /ʃiˈmeɪ/ (Show IPA), (Tatsunosuke Hasegawa) 1864–1909, Japanese author.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- habituate — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- hair bulb — the end of a hair follicle containing active hair-growing cells; situated under the skin
- hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
- hammurabi — 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
- herbarium — a collection of dried plants systematically arranged.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.