9-letter words containing s, u
- bemusedly — bewildered or confused: a bemused expression on his face.
- bendy bus — an articulated bus
- beni suef — city in NE Egypt, on the Nile: pop. 152,000
- beni-suef — a city in NW Egypt on the Nile River.
- bensulide — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 14 H 24 O 4 NPS 3 , used primarily to control crabgrass and broadleaf weeds.
- berzelius — Baron Jöns Jakob (ˈjœns ˈjɑːkɔp). 1779–1848, Swedish chemist, who invented the present system of chemical symbols and formulas, discovered several elements, and determined the atomic and molecular weight of many substances
- bev curls — long locks of hair, considered to be typical of a certain kind of unfashionable male
- bhikshuni — a female bhikshu; nun.
- bhutanese — a native or inhabitant of Bhutan
- bibacious — tending to drink in excess
- bierstube — a tavern or café offering German or German-style atmosphere, décor, food, beer, etc.
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- big bucks — If someone earns or spends big bucks, they earn or spend a lot of money.
- 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
- bisellium — an ancient Roman seat of honor for two persons.
- bismuthic — of or containing bismuth in the pentavalent state
- bismuthyl — Chemistry. the univalent group BiO + , occurring in certain bismuth salts, as bismuth oxychloride, BiOCl.
- bismutite — a mineral, bismuth carbonate, resulting from the alteration of bismuth minerals: a minor source of bismuth.
- bissextus — February 29th: the extra day added to the Julian calendar every fourth year (except those evenly divisible by 400, a rule introduced by the Gregorian calendar) to compensate for the approximately six hours a year by which the common year of 365 days falls short of the solar year.
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bisulfide — disulfide
- bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3
- 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
- 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.
- blutwurst — a German blood sausage
- 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