9-letter words containing w, b, u
- bangweulu — shallow lake in N Zambia: including swamps, 3,800 sq mi (9,842 sq km)
- barrowful — The amount that can fit in a barrow.
- blow tube — a tube for blowing air or oxygen into a flame to intensify its heat and direct it onto a small area
- blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
- 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.
- blutwurst — a German blood sausage
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brown out — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
- 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
- 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.
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- bugleweed — any aromatic plant of the genus Lycopus, having small whitish or pale blue flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
- bullwaddy — a N Australian tree, Macropteranthes kekwickii, growing in dense thickets
- bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
- burn down — If a building burns down or if someone burns it down, it is completely destroyed by fire.
- burrawang — any of several Australian cycads of the genus Macrozamia, having an edible nut
- burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
- bushwhack — to ambush
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- 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.
- butt weld — a welded butt joint
- buzz word — a word, often originating in a particular jargon, that becomes a vogue word in the community as a whole or among a particular group
- clubwoman — a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
- cowboy up — to adopt a tough approach or course of action
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
- dumb down — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
- dumb show — a part of a dramatic representation given in pantomime, common in early English drama.
- dust bowl — the region in the S central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s.
- funnelweb — A literate-programming tool by Ross Williams <[email protected]>. It emphasises simplicity and reliability. It provides a macro facility and assists in the production of typeset documentation. It is independent of the input programming language. Posted to comp.sources.unix volume 26 under CopyLeft. Runs on Sun, Vax, Macintosh and IBM PC.
- furbelows — Plural form of furbelow.
- how about — introducing a suggestion
- kowabunga — Alternative form of cowabunga.
- mouthbows — Plural form of mouthbow.
- new build — the activity of building new houses and other buildings
- nut-brown — Nut-brown is used to describe things that are dark reddish brown in colour.
- pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
- pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
- punchbowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- raw umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- scrubdown — an act or instance of scrubbing, especially a thorough washing of a surface or object: The decks of the ship get a scrubdown every morning.
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