10-letter words containing b, u, s
- because of — If an event or situation occurs because of something, that thing is the reason or cause.
- becquerels — Plural form of becquerel.
- beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- belisarius — ?505–565 ad, Byzantine general under Justinian I. He recovered North Africa from the Vandals and Italy from the Ostrogoths and led forces against the Persians
- belly-bust — belly-flop.
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- bemusement — Bemusement is the feeling that you have when you are puzzled or confused by something.
- benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- bestraught — distraught; distracted
- betelgeuse — a very remote luminous red supergiant, Alpha Orionis: the second brightest star in the constellation Orion. It is a variable star
- bi-curious — considering experimenting with bisexuality
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
- bilinguist — a speaker of two languages
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
- bismuthine — an unstable hydride of bismuth, BiH 3 , analogous to arsine and stibine.
- bismuthous — of or containing bismuth in the trivalent state
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bisulphide — a disulfide.
- bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
- bitou bush — type of sprawling woody shrub
- bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
- black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- blissfully — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- blood lust — If you say that someone is driven by a blood lust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
- bloomsburg — a city in E central Pennsylvania.
- bloomsbury — a district of central London in the borough of Camden: contains the British Museum, part of the University of London, and many publishers' offices
- blottesque — (of a painting) crudely executed, often characterized by blots and smears
- blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- blue dicks — a plant, Dichelostemma pulchellum, of the amaryllis family, common on the western coast of the U.S., having headlike clusters of blue flowers.
- blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
- blue flash — green flash.
- blue goose — a variety of the snow goose that has a bluish-grey body and white head and neck
- blue jeans — Blue jeans are the same as jeans.
- blue lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
- blue shark — a shark of the species Prionace glauca, found in temperate and tropical waters
- blue shift — a shift toward shorter wavelengths of the spectral lines of a celestial object, caused by the motion of the object toward the observer.
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- blue state — a state of the U.S. that usually votes Democratic.
- blue-curls — any of a genus (Trichostema) of plants of the mint family, with downy, narrow leaves and blue flowers