11-letter words containing bu
- contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contributer — Misspelling of contributor.
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- contributor — You can use contributor to refer to one of the causes of an event or situation, especially if that event or situation is an unpleasant one.
- control bus — (architecture) In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
- cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
- counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
- crab nebula — the expanding remnant of the supernova observed in 1054 ad, lying in the constellation Taurus at an approximate distance of 6500 light years
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- cuff button — the button for a shirt cuff.
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- currant bun — a sweet bun containing currants
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
- debt burden — A debt burden is a large amount of money that one country or organization owes to another and which they find very difficult to repay.
- debut album — the first album produced by a particular singer or band
- decarburize — decarbonize
- disburdened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburden.
- disbursable — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)
- distribuend — something that is distributed
- distributed — (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized by relatively extensive contact or constriction between the articulating organs, as the (sh) in show in contrast to the (s) in so.
- distributee — Law. a person who shares in a decedent estate.
- distributer — a person or thing that distributes.
- distributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distribute.
- distributor — a person or thing that distributes.
- do business — trade
- doorbusters — Plural form of doorbuster.
- ebulliently — overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited: The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.
- ebullitions — Plural form of ebullition.
- fabulicious — (slang) Exceptionally fabulous and appealing.
- fantabulous — extremely fine or desirable; excellent; wonderful.
- farm bureau — American Farm Bureau Federation.
- filibusters — Plural form of filibuster.
- fillibuster — Alternative form of filibuster.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- framebuffer — (computing) A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data.
- funambulate — to walk on a tightrope
- funambulism — The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- fussbudgets — Plural form of fussbudget.
- fussbudgety — in the manner of a fussbudget; fussy
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gangbusting — the activity of a gangbuster
- george bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- glen burnie — a city in E central Maryland, near Baltimore.