9-letter words containing s, u
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- bum steer — false or misleading information or advice
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- 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
- 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 baby — any of a family (Galagidae) of nocturnal prosimian primates of tropical African forests, with a long, bushy tail and large eyes
- bush bean — any of various low, erect, bushy forms of the common garden bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
- 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.
- 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
- bush-bash — to clear scrubland
- bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- bushelful — an amount equal to the capacity of a bushel.
- bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
- bushiness — a bushy quality or state
- bushwhack — to ambush
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- businessy — of, relating to, typical of, or suitable for the world of commercial or industrial business
- busticate — to break
- bustiness — the state of being busty
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-loop — tight loop
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- butcher's — a look
- butchness — the state of being butch
- 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
- buttinski — a person who interferes in the affairs of others; meddler.
- buttinsky — a busybody
- buttstock — the part of a gun behind the breech
- buttstrap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- cabassous — Plural form of cabassou.