10-letter words containing bu
- obambulate — (intransitive) To walk about, to wander aimlessly.
- off-budget — not included in the regular federal budget; funded through separate agencies.
- ogdensburg — a city in NE New York, on the St. Lawrence River.
- oil burner — a furnace, boiler, or other device that burns fuel oil.
- omnibusses — (dated) Plural form of omnibus.
- on the bum — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- orangeburg — a city in central South Carolina.
- osso bucco — a stew, originally from Italy, made with knuckle of veal, cooked in tomato sauce
- over-abuse — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- overbudget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overburden — to load with too great a burden; overload: He was overburdened with cares.
- overbuying — Present participle of overbuy.
- papal bull — bull2 (def 2).
- patibulary — of or relating to a gallows or an execution
- pepperbush — sweet pepperbush.
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- perrysburg — a town in NW Ohio.
- petersburg — a city in SE Virginia: besieged by Union forces 1864–65.
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- pseudobulb — an enlarged, aboveground portion of stem, present in many tropical orchids, in which moisture is stored.
- pushbutton — A pushbutton machine or process is controlled by means of buttons or switches.
- razor burn — soreness on the face caused by shaving
- rebuilding — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- rebukingly — in a severe and disapproving manner
- rebuttable — to refute by evidence or argument.
- redisburse — to refund or reimburse
- regensburg — a city in central Bavaria, in SE Germany, on the Danube: battle 1809.
- retabulate — to put or arrange in a tabular, systematic, or condensed form; formulate tabularly.
- retributor — a person who retributes
- rickburner — an arsonist who sets fire to haystacks
- rifle butt — the end of the stock of a rifle
- robustious — rough, rude, or boisterous.
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- rumbullion — a drink of rum
- rustbucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
- saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
- salbutamol — the international generic name for albuterol.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- school bus — a vehicle used to transport students to and from school or used for other related purposes.
- self-abuse — reproach or blame of oneself.
- self-build — the practice of building one's own home
- sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- shikibuton — futon.
- shrewsbury — a city now part of Shrewsbury and Atcham, in Salop, in W England.
- shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- sideburned — having sideburns
- snow buggy — a vehicle designed for travelling over snow, often fitted with very large tyres or caterpillar tracks
- snow bunny — a devotee of winter sports