9-letter words containing o, u, b
- bung-hole — a hole in a cask through which it is filled.
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
- bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
- buoy boat — a boat used in whaling for holding and towing the whales killed during a hunt.
- buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
- buoyantly — in a happy, confident manner
- bupropion — an antidepressant drug used to help people stop smoking
- burdenous — burdensome
- burgeoned — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
- burladero — a safe area for the bull-fighter in a bull ring
- burn down — If a building burns down or if someone burns it down, it is completely destroyed by fire.
- burnt-out — Burnt-out vehicles or buildings have been so badly damaged by fire that they can no longer be used.
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- burrstone — buhrstone
- bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
- burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
- burst out — If someone bursts out laughing, crying, or making another noise, they suddenly start making that noise. You can also say that a noise bursts out.
- bus error — (processor) A fatal failure in the execution of a machine language instruction resulting from the processor detecting an anomalous condition on its bus. Such conditions include invalid address alignment (accessing a multi-byte number at an odd address), accessing a physical address that does not correspond to any device, or some other device-specific hardware error. A bus error triggers a processor-level exception which Unix translates into a "SIGBUS" signal which, if not caught, will terminate the current process.
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- bush hook — Dialect. a tool with a curved blade and long handle used to cut bushes and undergrowth.
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-loop — tight loop
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- buteonine — of or relating to hawks
- button up — to fasten (a garment) with a button or buttons
- buttstock — the part of a gun behind the breech
- buzz bomb — a robot bomb, esp. as used against England by Germany in WWII
- buzz word — a word, often originating in a particular jargon, that becomes a vogue word in the community as a whole or among a particular group
- byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- cabassous — Plural form of cabassou.
- calabogus — a mixed drink containing rum, spruce beer, and molasses
- calembour — a pun
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- cherbourg — a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)
- cleobulus — flourished 560 b.c, Greek sage and lyric poet, a native and tyrant of Lindus, Rhodes.
- cloudbank — Alternative form of cloud bank.
- club foot — If someone has a club foot, they are born with a badly twisted foot.
- club moss — any mosslike tracheophyte plant of the phylum Lycopodophyta, having erect or creeping stems covered with tiny overlapping leaves
- club root — a disease of plants of the cabbage family, caused by a slime mold (Plasmodiophora brassicae) and characterized by swellings of the roots
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- club sofa — a heavily upholstered sofa having solid sides and a low back.
- club-foot — a knoblike foot formed from the end of a cabriole leg as a continuation of its lines: less flat than a pad foot but otherwise similar.
- clubhouse — A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
- clubrooms — Plural form of clubroom.