9-letter words containing s, u, e
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
- blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
- blue lips — a plant, Collinsia grandiflora, of the figwort family, of western central North America, having short-stalked flowers with the upper lip purple or white and the lower lip blue or violet.
- blue mass — Also called mercury mass. a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.
- blue stem — a disease of raspberries and blackberries, characterized by blue discoloration of the stem, wilting, and discoloration and decay of the roots, caused by a fungus, Verticillium alboatrum.
- bluecurls — a name for the plant Trichostema dichotomum
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- bluejeans — jeans made of blue denim
- blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- bluntness — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- blushless — without blushes, shameless
- blustered — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
- booklouse — any small insect of the order Psocoptera, esp Trogium pulsatorium (common booklouse), a wingless species that feeds on bookbinding paste, etc
- booze bus — a mobile police unit used to conduct drug and alcohol tests on drivers
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- 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.
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
- brushless — (of a motor) not using physical contacts for the communicator
- brusquely — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
- bruteness — the quality of being brutish or savage
- bruxelles — Brussels
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buckley's — no chance at all
- bucuresti — Bucharest
- bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
- bull nose — a disease of pigs resulting in deformity of the nose, caused by infection with the bacterium Bordatella bronchiseptica
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- bum steer — false or misleading information or advice
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- bunk beds — a pair of beds constructed one above the other
- bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- burdenous — burdensome
- burgesses — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
- burlesque — A burlesque is a performance or a piece of writing that makes fun of something by copying it in an exaggerated way. You can also use burlesque to refer to a situation in real life that is like this.
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- burnsides — thick side whiskers worn with a moustache and clean-shaven chin