9-letter words containing b, u, r
- burst out — If someone bursts out laughing, crying, or making another noise, they suddenly start making that noise. You can also say that a noise bursts out.
- burthened — burden1 .
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- bus error — (processor) A fatal failure in the execution of a machine language instruction resulting from the processor detecting an anomalous condition on its bus. Such conditions include invalid address alignment (accessing a multi-byte number at an odd address), accessing a physical address that does not correspond to any device, or some other device-specific hardware error. A bus error triggers a processor-level exception which Unix translates into a "SIGBUS" signal which, if not caught, will terminate the current process.
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
- bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- butcher's — a look
- butchered — a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
- butcherer — a person who butchers
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
- butlerage — a butler's position or rank
- butter up — If someone butters you up, they try to please you because they want you to help or support them.
- butterbur — a plant of the Eurasian genus Petasites with fragrant whitish or purple flowers, woolly stems, and leaves formerly used to wrap butter: family Asteraceae (composites)
- buttercup — A buttercup is a small plant with bright yellow flowers.
- butterfat — the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made, consisting of a mixture of glycerides, mainly butyrin, olein, and palmitin
- butterfly — A butterfly is an insect with large colourful wings and a thin body.
- butterine — an artificial butter made partly from milk
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- butternut — a walnut tree, Juglans cinerea of E North America
- buttstrap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- buzz term — buzzword.
- buzz word — a word, often originating in a particular jargon, that becomes a vogue word in the community as a whole or among a particular group
- by nature — essentially or innately
- by repute — If you know someone by repute, you have never met them but you have heard or read about them.
- by return — by the next post back to the sender
- byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- calembour — a pun
- 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
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- carbuncle — A carbuncle is a large swelling under the skin.
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- carburate — carburet.
- carburize — to increase the carbon content of (the surface of a low-carbon steel) so that the surface can be hardened by heat treatment
- cd burner — A CD burner is the same as a CD writer.
- cherbourg — a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)
- cherubini — (Maria) Luigi (Carlo Zenobio Salvatore) (luˈiːdʒi). 1760–1842, Italian composer, noted particularly for his church music and his operas.
- club card — A club card is a card issued by a retailer which allows the card holder to make discounted purchases.
- club root — a disease of plants of the cabbage family, caused by a slime mold (Plasmodiophora brassicae) and characterized by swellings of the roots
- clubrooms — Plural form of clubroom.
- cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- colubrine — of or resembling a snake
- columbary — a dovecote
- combretum — any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Combretum, native mainly to tropical and subtropical Africa and producing attractive flowers