11-letter words containing bu
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- goose bumps — If you get goose bumps, the hairs on your skin stand up so that it is covered with tiny bumps. You get goose bumps when you are cold, frightened, or excited.
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-bushel — a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
- harquebuses — Plural form of harquebus.
- hash bucket — hash coding
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- hold button — a button on a telephone that enables someone to interrupt an incoming call temporarily in order to answer another call.
- home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- humbuggable — capable of being humbugged
- hunt button — a button engraved with the insignia of one's hunt and worn on the coat and vest as part of the hunt uniform.
- hurly-burly — noisy disorder and confusion; commotion; uproar; tumult.
- imbursement — (obsolete) The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
- impulse buy — spur-of-the-moment purchase
- in business — company: open for trading, etc.
- in the buff — naked
- in/into bud — When a tree or plant is in bud or has come into bud, it has buds on it.
- incunabulum — A book, single sheet, or image that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe.
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- infundibula — Plural form of infundibulum.
- isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
- jerry-build — to build cheaply and flimsily.
- jerry-built — built cheaply and flimsily.
- keyed bugle — a bugle that has keys to make it possible to play a chromatic scale
- kibbutzniks — Plural form of kibbutznik.
- kissing bug — Informal. a person much given to kissing. an irresistible desire to kiss or be kissed.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- kookaburras — Plural form of kookaburra.
- lactalbumin — the simple protein of milk, obtained from whey, used in the preparation of certain foods and in adhesives and varnishes.
- lateral bud — axillary bud.
- lime burner — a person who makes lime by burning or calcining limestone, shells, etc.
- ludwigsburg — a city in Baden-Württemberg state, SW Germany.
- make a buck — If you are trying to make a buck, you are trying to earn some money.
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
- marsh buggy — swamp buggy.
- martinsburg — a city in NE West Virginia.
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- microbubble — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microbursts — Plural form of microburst.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
- mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
- moorbuzzard — a bird of prey known as the marsh harrier, Circus Aeruginosus
- moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- moxibustion — (in Eastern medicine) the burning of moxa on or near a person’s skin as a counterirritant.