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9-letter words containing b, s, u

  • brunswick — a former duchy (1635–1918) and state (1918–46) of central Germany, now part of the state of Lower Saxony; formerly (1949–90) part of West Germany
  • brush cut — crew cut
  • brush off — If someone brushes you off when you speak to them, they refuse to talk to you or be nice to you.
  • brush-off — a refusal to talk or listen to someone; abrupt or final dismissal or rebuff.
  • brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
  • brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
  • brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
  • brushless — (of a motor) not using physical contacts for the communicator
  • brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface
  • brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
  • brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
  • brusquely — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
  • brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
  • bruteness — the quality of being brutish or savage
  • bruxelles — Brussels
  • bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
  • buck slip — Informal. a paper attached to and showing the destination and source of an interoffice memorandum, file, or the like.
  • buckbrush — a flowering American shrub, Andrachne phyllantoides, of the family Euphorbiaceae
  • buckishly — in a buckish manner
  • buckley's — no chance at all
  • buckskins — (in the US and Canada) breeches, shoes, or a suit of buckskin
  • 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.
  • bucuresti — Bucharest
  • bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
  • bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
  • bud stick — a shoot of a plant from which buds are cut for the propagation of that plant.
  • buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
  • bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
  • bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
  • bull bars — a large protective metal grille on the front of some vehicles, esp four-wheel-drive vehicles
  • bull dust — fine dust
  • bull huss — a variety of dogfish, Scyliobinus stellaris
  • bull nose — a disease of pigs resulting in deformity of the nose, caused by infection with the bacterium Bordatella bronchiseptica
  • bullishly — in a bullish manner
  • bullshits — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
  • bum steer — false or misleading information or advice
  • bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
  • bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
  • bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
  • bunk beds — a pair of beds constructed one above the other
  • bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
  • buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
  • burdenous — burdensome
  • burgesses — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
  • burlesque — A burlesque is a performance or a piece of writing that makes fun of something by copying it in an exaggerated way. You can also use burlesque to refer to a situation in real life that is like this.
  • burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
  • burnsides — thick side whiskers worn with a moustache and clean-shaven chin
  • burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
  • burrstone — buhrstone
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