10-letter words containing b, u, s
- businesses — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- bust a gut — to make an intense effort
- bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- bustamante — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1780–1853, Mexican military and political leader: president 1830–32, 1837–41.
- bustlingly — in a bustling manner
- butane gas — a colourless flammable gaseous alkane that exists in two isomeric forms, both of which occur in natural gas. The stable isomer, n-butane, is used mainly in the manufacture of rubber and fuels (such as Calor Gas). Formula: C4H10
- bute house — a house in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh: official residence of the First Minister of Scotland
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- butt heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
- butt shaft — a blunt-headed unbarbed arrow
- butt-strap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
- butterless — without butter
- buttonbush — a N American shrub of the genus Cephalanthus
- buttonless — having no button or buttons.
- buttressed — any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall.
- by request — in accordance with someone's desire
- by-numbers — done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
- cash bonus — an extra amount of money given to someone for doing something good, over and above the amount that is normally paid for that achievement
- cast about — to make a mental or visual search
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- censurable — deserving censure, condemnation, or blame
- check stub — A check stub is the part of a check that is kept by the payee with information such as the check number, date, and amount.
- cherubfish — a brilliantly colored butterflyfish, Centropyge argi, found in the West Indies: kept in home aquariums.
- chess club — a club in which participants can learn chess and improve their playing skills
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- chorus boy — a male singer or dancer of the chorus of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, etc.
- chubbiness — round and plump: a chubby child; a chubby face.
- chubsucker — any of several stout suckers of the genus Erimyzon, inhabiting sluggish streams, backwaters, and lakes of the central and eastern U.S.
- clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
- cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
- cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
- club class — a class of air travel which is less luxurious than first class but more luxurious than economy class
- club grass — cattail.
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
- club-house — a building or room occupied by a club.
- clubbiness — the state of being clubby
- clubhouses — Plural form of clubhouse.
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- co-publish — to publish (something) with another person or company
- cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
- columbines — Plural form of columbine.
- comburgess — (formerly) a fellow citizen or freeman of a borough
- combusting — Present participle of combust.