12-letter words containing bu
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- ebulliometer — a device used to determine the boiling point of a solution
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- family album — photos of a family
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- fosbury flop — a modern high-jumping technique whereby the jumper clears the bar headfirst and backwards
- frame buffer — (hardware) Part of a video system in which an image is stored, pixel by pixel and which is used to refresh a raster image. The term "video memory" suggests a fairly static display whereas a frame buffer holds one frame from a sequence of frames forming a moving image. Frame buffers are found in frame grabbers and time base correction systems, for example.
- freezer burn — light-colored spots that appear on frozen food, caused by loss of surface moisture due to faulty packaging or improper freezing methods.
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- higgs bugson — (humour) A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal user reports. The Higgs Bugson is difficult to reproduce because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find one you will need a Large Hadron Debugger.
- hobblebushes — Plural form of hobblebush.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- in (the) bud — in the time of budding
- incunabulist — a person who specialises in incunabula, a collector of incunabula
- infibulation — the stitching together of the vulva, often after a clitoridectomy, leaving a small opening for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
- infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- infundibulum — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- intertubular — Between tubes or tubules.
- irrebuttable — incapable of being rebutted or refuted.
- jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- jungle bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- jungle-bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- kneeling bus — a bus that can lower its body or entrance door to facilitate boarding by the elderly or people with disabilities.
- lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.
- lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.