9-letter words containing a, b, u, s
- baguettes — Plural form of baguette.
- baigneuse — a day bed of the Empire period, having a back sloping and curving to form a rounded head and foot.
- bakehouse — a building or room to bake in; bakery.
- ballismus — a condition characterized by twisting, shaking, and jerking motions.
- balusters — Plural form of baluster.
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- bankrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt.
- bantustan — (formerly, in South Africa) an area reserved for occupation by a Black African people, with limited self-government; abolished in 1993
- barbarous — If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
- barbecues — Plural form of barbecue.
- barbeques — Plural form of barbeque.
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- base jump — a parachute jump from the top of a building, bridge, cliff, etc., usually at a height of 1,000 feet (305 meters) or less.
- base unit — any of the fundamental units in a system of measurement. The base SI units are the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole
- bashfully — In a bashful manner.
- basketful — a sufficient quantity to fill a basket; the amount contained in a basket.
- bass drum — a large shallow drum of low and indefinite pitch
- bass tuba — a tuba pitched in F or E-flat
- bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
- bathybius — a gelatinous substance discovered on the Atlantic seabed, originally thought to be protoplasm, but later discovered to be inorganic
- battlebus — the coach that transports politicians and their advisers round the country during an election campaign
- bauhinias — Plural form of bauhinia.
- beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- beaumaris — a resort in N Wales, on the island of Anglesey: 13th-century castle. Pop: 1513 (2001)
- beauteous — Beauteous means the same as beautiful.
- bhutanese — a native or inhabitant of Bhutan
- bibacious — tending to drink in excess
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
- blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
- blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
- blue mass — Also called mercury mass. a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- bluejeans — jeans made of blue denim
- boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- bourasque — a tempest
- bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.