9-letter words containing u, b, i, e
- 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
- bit gauge — a device for stopping a bit when it has reached a desired depth.
- bitternut — an E North American hickory tree, Carya cordiformis, with thin-shelled nuts and bitter kernels
- blitheful — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- blue chip — Blue chip stocks and shares are an investment which are considered fairly safe to invest in while also being profitable.
- blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
- blue line — either of the two blue lines, parallel to the goal lines, that divide an ice hockey rink into three zones
- 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 nile — a river in E Africa, rising in central Ethiopia as the Abbai and flowing southeast, then northwest to join the White Nile. Length: about 1530 km (950 miles)
- blue pike — a variety of the walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum, inhabiting the Great Lakes.
- blue pill — a pill of blue mass, used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic.
- blue wire — (IBM) Patch wires added to circuit boards at the factory to correct design or fabrication problems. These may be necessary if there hasn't been time to design and qualify another board version. Compare purple wire, red wire, yellow wire.
- blue-chip — of, relating to, or constituting a blue chip.
- bluefield — a city in SW West Virginia.
- blueliner — a machine for making blueprints
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- 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
- boieldieu — François Adrien [frahn-swa a-dree-an] /frɑ̃ˈswa a driˈɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1775–1834, French composer.
- 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.
- boutiquey — having the characteristics of a boutique
- bretylium — a substance, C 18 H 24 BrNO 3 S, used to treat acute ventricular arrhythmias and suppress ventricular fibrillation.
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- briquette — a small brick made of compressed coal dust, sawdust, charcoal, etc, used for fuel
- brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- brutelike — beastlike, brutish
- bucuresti — Bucharest
- budgeting — financial planning
- buffering — temporary storage of data
- buffeting — response of an aircraft structure to buffet, esp an irregular oscillation of the tail
- bug-juice — an alcoholic beverage, especially of an inferior quality.
- buildable — suitable for building on
- bulb mite — a widespread mite, Rhizaglophus eclinops, that tunnels in the bulbs of lilies and other plants
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
- bullbrier — a prickly vine of the genus Smilax, with small green flowers and inedible black berries
- bulleting — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
- bullycide — the act or an instance of killing oneself intentionally as a result of bullying
- bunkering — a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box: a coal bunker.
- 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
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- 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
- bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases
- bushiness — a bushy quality or state
- businessy — of, relating to, typical of, or suitable for the world of commercial or industrial business