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11-letter words containing bu

  • native bush — indigenous forest
  • newburyport — a city in NE Massachusetts.
  • non-abusive — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
  • nonbuilding — Not being or pertaining to a building.
  • nonburnable — incapable of being burned, not combustible
  • nonbusiness — Not a business, or unrelated to business.
  • nothing but — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • obumbration — the action of making dim, dark, obfuscated, or eclipsed
  • oil-burning — that uses paraffin, esp as a domestic fuel
  • ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
  • ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
  • opera buffa — an Italian farcical comic opera originating in the 18th century and containing recitativo secco, patter songs, and ensemble finales.
  • outbuilding — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
  • over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
  • overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
  • overburthen — to overburden
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • paul bunyan — John, 1628–88, English preacher: author of The Pilgrim's Progress.
  • perambulate — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • photo album — bound book for photos
  • pietersburg — capital of Northern Transvaal province, South Africa: pop. 26,000
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
  • preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory
  • preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
  • pressburger — Emeric (ˈɛmərɪk). 1902–88, Hungarian film writer and producer, living in Britain: best known for his collaboration (1942–57) with Michael Powell. Films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), I Know Where I'm Going (1945), and A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
  • probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • pudibundity — prudery
  • push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
  • rambus dram — (storage)   (RDRAM) A high bandwidth DRAM, designed by Rambus, Inc. of Mountain View, CA. RDRAM is used mainly for video accelerators, and also in the Ultra 64 from Nintendo. It offers sustained transfer rates of around 1000 Mbps, compared to 200 Mbps for ordinary DRAM. Although it cannot be used as a direct replacement for existing memory, it is likely that it will replace DRAM and SDRAM as the main memory system in personal computers as the bus speeds required by these machines increase. SDRAM can operate up to around 100MHz, but RDRAM has been demonstrated by the manufacturers running at 600MHz. The memory is also only 8 or 9 bits wide, so the bandwidth would increase enormously if it were used in parallel to give 32 or 64-bit memory.
  • raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
  • rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
  • rear bumper — the bar at the back of a vehicle which protects it if it bumps into something
  • reattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • rebuildable — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
  • rebukefully — in a rebukeful manner
  • recarburize — to add carbon to (steel), as in an open-hearth furnace, as by adding pig iron.
  • retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
  • retributive — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
  • retributory — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
  • retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.
  • ring nebula — a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra that has a ringlike appearance surrounding its central star.
  • royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
  • rumbustical — rumbustious
  • rumbustious — rambunctious.
  • rust bucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
  • saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • scuttlebutt — Nautical. an open cask of drinking water. a drinking fountain for use by the crew of a vessel.
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