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9-letter words containing b, u, o

  • boundedly — having bounds or limits.
  • boundless — If you describe something as boundless, you mean that there seems to be no end or limit to it.
  • boundness — the quality of being bound or obligated
  • bounteous — giving freely; generous
  • bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
  • bountyhed — the quality of being bounteous
  • bourasque — a tempest
  • bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
  • bourgogne — Burgundy2
  • bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life
  • boutiquey — having the characteristics of a boutique
  • bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
  • bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
  • box lunch — A box lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • boxed out — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
  • boy scout — The Boy Scouts is an organization for boys which teaches them discipline and practical skills.
  • break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
  • brewhouse — a brewery
  • brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
  • bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
  • bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
  • bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
  • brood bud — bulbil.
  • brown out — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • bubbletop — a transparent dome, usually made of plastic or bulletproof glass, that serves as the roof or part of the roof of an automotive vehicle.
  • buck moth — a saturniid moth, Hemileuca maia, having delicate, grayish wings with a white band.
  • buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
  • buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
  • buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
  • bucktooth — a projecting upper front tooth
  • 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
  • buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
  • bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
  • bufotoxin — a toxin obtained from the skin glands of the European toad, Bufa vulgaris.
  • buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
  • builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
  • bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
  • bull nose — a disease of pigs resulting in deformity of the nose, caused by infection with the bacterium Bordatella bronchiseptica
  • bull rope — any of various ropes for holding objects to prevent them from rubbing against or striking other objects.
  • bulldozer — A bulldozer is a large vehicle with a broad metal blade at the front, which is used for knocking down buildings or moving large amounts of earth.
  • bully-boy — If you describe a man as a bully-boy, you disapprove of him because he is rough and aggressive.
  • bully-off — a method by which a game is restarted after a stoppage. Two opposing players stand with the ball between them and alternately strike their sticks together and against the ground three times before trying to hit the ball
  • bumbledom — self-importance in a minor office
  • bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
  • bumpology — phrenology
  • bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
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