9-letter words containing b, u, i
- kickabout — An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
- kitzbühel — a town in W Austria, in the Tirol: centre for winter sports. Pop: 8574 (2001)
- kuibyshev — a port in the Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- labourite — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- libellous — containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously defamatory.
- lie about — sth: remain unused
- life buoy — any of variously formed buoyant devices for supporting a person fallen into the water.
- lightbulb — Alternative spelling of light bulb.
- limber up — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
- limburger — a variety of soft white cheese of strong odor and flavor.
- litterbug — a person who litters public places with items of refuse: Litterbugs had thrown beer cans on the picnic grounds.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- lullabied — Simple past tense and past participle of lullaby.
- lullabies — Plural form of lullaby.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- mandibula — (anatomy) mandible.
- manubrial — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manubrium — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- marrubium — Any of the genus Marrubium of bitter aromatic plants; hoarhound.
- mbujimayi — a city in the S central Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- microtube — A microscopic tube, especially one used in the construction of specialized lasers.
- minibuses — Plural form of minibus.
- minirugby — a version of rugby played with nine players per team on a pitch half the usual size
- mint bush — an aromatic shrub of the genus Prostanthera with a mintlike odour: family Lamiaceae (labiates): native to Australia
- misbutton — (transitive) To button wrongly.
- misdoubts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misdoubt.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- misnumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- mixed bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- moundbird — megapode.
- mousebird — coly.
- muliebral — womanly nature or qualities.
- multiband — Having or employing multiple bands, especially frequency bands.
- multibank — of or involving more than one bank
- multiboot — dual boot
- multilobe — having several lobes
- mumblings — Plural form of mumbling.
- music box — a box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk.
- muybridge — Eadweard [ed-werd] /ˈɛd wərd/ (Show IPA), (Edward James Muggeridge) 1830–1904, U.S. photographer, born in England: pioneered in photographic studies of animals and humans in motion.