14-letter words containing bu
- t distribution — Student's t distribution.
- tabularization — the act of tabularizing
- tall buttercup — a Eurasian buttercup, Ranunculus acris, naturalized in North American fields and meadows, having a tall stem and shiny yellow flowers.
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
- tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
- tintinnabulate — to ring
- to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
- tubuai islands — a chain of small islands extending about 1400 km (850 miles) in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia; discovered by Captain Cook in 1777; annexed by France in 1880. Pop: 1979 (2002). Area: 173 sq km (67 sq miles)
- turbo debugger — (programming) A source-level debugger designed for use with Borland and other compilers.
- turbulent flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid varies irregularly.
- turkey buzzard — turkey vulture.
- unattributable — 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.
- unbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
- unbusinesslike — conforming to, attending to, or characteristic of business.
- under-building — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- union of burma — former official name of Burma.
- urinary tubule — any of the long, winding tubules of the vertebrate kidney in which urine is formed
- vesa local bus — (hardware, standard) (VL, VLB) A local bus defined by the Video Electronics Standards Association, mostly used in personal computers based on the Intel 486. See also PCI.
- weather bureau — the former name of the U.S. National Weather Service.
- whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).