9-letter words containing s, o, u
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- beauteous — Beauteous means the same as beautiful.
- bedehouse — beadhouse
- beerhouse — an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.
- bibacious — tending to drink in excess
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- biliously — in a bilious or bad manner
- biogenous — the production of living organisms from other living organisms.
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- 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
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- 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.
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brush off — If someone brushes you off when you speak to them, they refuse to talk to you or be nice to you.
- brush-off — a refusal to talk or listen to someone; abrupt or final dismissal or rebuff.
- brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
- brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
- bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
- bull nose — a disease of pigs resulting in deformity of the nose, caused by infection with the bacterium Bordatella bronchiseptica
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
- burdenous — burdensome
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories