12-letter words containing bu
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- phillipsburg — a city in NW New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
- polybutylene — any of several polymers of butylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of lubricants and synthetic rubber.
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- press bureau — an organization or a department whose function is press-agentry.
- press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
- rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rambus, inc. — (company) The company which designed Rambus DRAM. Address: Mountain View, CA., USA.
- reattributed — 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.
- recarburizer — to add carbon to (steel), as in an open-hearth furnace, as by adding pig iron.
- redistribute — to distribute again or anew: The corporation will redistribute its share of the profits to its stockholders.
- reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
- reimbursable — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- reset button — control that restores a default setting
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
- ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
- salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- sexual abuse — indecent assault
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- silbury hill — the largest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe, located near Avebury, England, and dating from 2600 b.c.
- sitting bull — 1834–90, American Indian warrior: leader of the Hunkpapa; victor at Little Bighorn, 1876.
- slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
- snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- somnambulant — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulism — sleepwalking.
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- square-built — sturdy and strong-looking
- stressbuster — a product, practice, system, etc, that is designed to alleviate stress
- struggle bus — a situation, task, etc., that seems difficult or frustrating: With no sleep last night, I’ll be on the struggle bus today.
- subdebutante — a young woman who has not yet made her debut into society.
- subumbrellar — of or pertaining to the subumbrella, located beneath the umbrella (of a jellyfish)
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- the bushveld — an area of low altitude in N South Africa, having scrub vegetation
- the business — If you say that someone or something is the business, you mean that they are the best of their kind.
- tribute band — A tribute band is a pop group that plays the music and copies the style of another, much more famous, pop group.
- tubular bell — Often, tubular bells. one of a set of tuned metal tubes of different lengths used as a musical instrument, suspended vertically from a frame and struck with a mallet to produce sounds or melodies.
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- tubulifloral — (of a plant) tubuliflorous
- unattributed — 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.