10-letter words containing g, b, u
- blue goose — a variety of the snow goose that has a bluish-grey body and white head and neck
- blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- blue ridge — a mountain range extending SW from N Virginia to N Georgia: part of the Appalachian Mountains.
- blue-green — a color about midway between blue and green in the spectrum.
- bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blurringly — in a manner which causes blurring
- bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore
- bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
- bogon flux — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See quantum bogodynamics.
- bongo drum — small hand drum
- book group — A book group is a group of people who meet regularly to discuss books that they have read.
- book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
- bren (gun) — a light, fast, gas-operated machine gun used by the British army in WWII
- bring suit — to institute legal action; sue
- brought on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- bubble gum — Bubble gum is a sweet substance similar to chewing gum. You can blow it out of your mouth so it makes the shape of a bubble.
- bubble-gum — a type of chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles through the lips.
- bubs grade — a baby
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- buddh gaya — a town in NE India, in Bihar: site of the sacred bo tree under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha; pilgrimage centre. Pop: 30 883 (2001)
- buddhology — the study of Buddha and of Buddhahood.
- budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- bug-ridden — full of insects
- bugger all — Bugger all is a rude way of saying 'nothing'.
- bugger off — If someone buggers off, they go away quickly and suddenly. People often say bugger off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
- bugger-all — absolutely nothing; nothing at all: Those reckless investments left him with bugger-all.
- buggy whip — horsewhip
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal