9-letter words containing b, u, s
- columbous — niobous.
- combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.
- combustor — the combustion system of a jet engine or ramjet, comprising the combustion chamber, the fuel injection apparatus, and the igniter
- corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- crossbuck — (in the US) a white cross-shaped road sign used at railway crossings
- crucibles — Plural form of crucible.
- crumbiest — Superlative form of crumby.
- crush bar — a bar at a theatre for serving drinks during the intervals of a play
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cub scout — a member of a junior branch (for those aged 8–11 years) of the Scout Association
- cubatures — Plural form of cubature.
- cucumbers — Plural form of cucumber.
- cucurbits — Plural form of cucurbit.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- curbsides — Plural form of curbside.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- debuggers — Plural form of debugger.
- debunkers — Plural form of debunker.
- debutants — Plural form of debutant.
- decubitis — (medical) Inflammations cause by a reclined position of the body; it often refers to the complications of bed-ridden patients such as bed sores.
- decubitus — the posture adopted when lying down
- deskbound — doing sedentary work; working exclusively at a desk.
- disabused — Simple past tense and past participle of disabuse.
- disabuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disabuse.
- disbudded — Simple past tense and past participle of disbud.
- disburden — to remove a burden from; rid of a burden.
- disbursal — The act of disbursing money.
- disbursed — Pay out (money from a fund).
- disburser — One who disburses money.
- disburses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disburse.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- disturbed — marked by symptoms of mental illness: a disturbed personality.
- disturber — Someone or something that disturbs; a disrupter.
- doubloons — Plural form of doubloon.
- doubtless — without doubt; certainly; surely; unquestionably.
- doughboys — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
- drubbings — Plural form of drubbing.
- drumbeats — Plural form of drumbeat.
- dubersome — (archaic) Doubtful.
- dubieties — Plural form of dubiety.
- dubiosity — dubiety.
- dubiously — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- dumb show — a part of a dramatic representation given in pantomime, common in early English drama.