9-letter words containing b, u, s, t
- blue stem — a disease of raspberries and blackberries, characterized by blue discoloration of the stem, wilting, and discoloration and decay of the roots, caused by a fungus, Verticillium alboatrum.
- blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- bluntness — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- blustered — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- blutwurst — a German blood sausage
- boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
- boom-bust — relating to a supposed cycle in which periods of prosperity and growth alternate with periods of recession
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- bounteous — giving freely; generous
- boy scout — The Boy Scouts is an organization for boys which teaches them discipline and practical skills.
- bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
- brush cut — crew cut
- 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
- 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.
- bucuresti — Bucharest
- 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
- bull dust — fine dust
- bullshits — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
- 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
- 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
- burrstone — buhrstone
- burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
- 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.
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- busticate — to break
- bustiness — the state of being busty
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- butcher's — a look
- butchness — the state of being butch
- 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
- buttinski — a person who interferes in the affairs of others; meddler.
- buttinsky — a busybody
- buttstock — the part of a gun behind the breech
- buttstrap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- chubbiest — Superlative form of chubby.
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
- combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.