9-letter words containing b, u, s
- biogenous — the production of living organisms from other living organisms.
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- bisellium — an ancient Roman seat of honor for two persons.
- bismuthic — of or containing bismuth in the pentavalent state
- bismuthyl — Chemistry. the univalent group BiO + , occurring in certain bismuth salts, as bismuth oxychloride, BiOCl.
- bismutite — a mineral, bismuth carbonate, resulting from the alteration of bismuth minerals: a minor source of bismuth.
- bissextus — February 29th: the extra day added to the Julian calendar every fourth year (except those evenly divisible by 400, a rule introduced by the Gregorian calendar) to compensate for the approximately six hours a year by which the common year of 365 days falls short of the solar year.
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bisulfide — disulfide
- bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3
- blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
- bless you — You can say 'bless you' to someone who has just sneezed.
- bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- blockbust — to encourage the sale of property by means of blockbusting
- bloodlust — If you say that someone is driven by a bloodlust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
- blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
- blue lips — a plant, Collinsia grandiflora, of the figwort family, of western central North America, having short-stalked flowers with the upper lip purple or white and the lower lip blue or violet.
- blue mass — Also called mercury mass. a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.
- 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.
- bluecurls — a name for the plant Trichostema dichotomum
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- bluejeans — jeans made of blue denim
- 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.
- blushless — without blushes, shameless
- 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.
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- body-surf — to ride a wave by lying on it without a surfboard
- bonhomous — exhibiting bonhomie
- booklouse — any small insect of the order Psocoptera, esp Trogium pulsatorium (common booklouse), a wingless species that feeds on bookbinding paste, etc
- boom-bust — relating to a supposed cycle in which periods of prosperity and growth alternate with periods of recession
- booze bus — a mobile police unit used to conduct drug and alcohol tests on drivers
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
- 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
- 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.
- boy scout — The Boy Scouts is an organization for boys which teaches them discipline and practical skills.
- bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)