9-letter words containing s, u, r
- body-surf — to ride a wave by lying on it without a surfboard
- 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.
- bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brunswick — a former duchy (1635–1918) and state (1918–46) of central Germany, now part of the state of Lower Saxony; formerly (1949–90) part of West Germany
- brush cut — crew cut
- 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.
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
- brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- brushless — (of a motor) not using physical contacts for the communicator
- brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface
- 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.
- brusquely — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- bruteness — the quality of being brutish or savage
- bruxelles — Brussels
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buckbrush — a flowering American shrub, Andrachne phyllantoides, of the family Euphorbiaceae
- bucuresti — Bucharest
- 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
- bull bars — a large protective metal grille on the front of some vehicles, esp four-wheel-drive vehicles
- 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
- 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
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- burrstone — buhrstone
- bursarial — of, relating to, or paid by a bursar or bursary
- 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 road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
- bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- butcher's — a look
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area