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14-letter words containing bu

  • coconut butter — a solid form of coconut oil
  • combustibility — capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.
  • confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
  • contributional — the act of contributing.
  • contributorily — In a contributory manner.
  • cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
  • crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • debugging tool — debugger
  • debutante ball — a formal ball at which young women of upper-class background are presented to society
  • diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
  • disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
  • do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
  • domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
  • empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
  • gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
  • george hw bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
  • immunoglobulin — any of several classes of structurally related proteins that function as antibodies or receptors and are found in plasma and other body fluids and in the membrane of certain cells. Compare IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, IgM.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • incense burner — container in which fragrance is burned
  • indian buffalo — a member of the cattle tribe, Bubalus bubalis, of swampy regions of S Asia, having widely spreading back-curving horns. Domesticated forms are used as draught animals
  • indigo bunting — a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
  • infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
  • james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
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