15-letter words containing bu
- out of business — If a shop or company goes out of business or is put out of business, it has to stop trading because it is not making enough money.
- oxyphenbutazone — an anti-inflammatory treatment for arthritis or bursitis
- painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
- polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
- public building — a building that belongs to a town or state, and is used by the public
- punch the bundy — to start work
- quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
- radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
- redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- rotary debugger — (Commodore) Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colours, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage.
- salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
- salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
- self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
- sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
- sub-distributor — a person or thing that distributes.
- substance abuse — long-term, pathological use of alcohol or drugs, characterized by daily intoxication, inability to reduce consumption, and impairment in social or occupational functioning; broadly, alcohol or drug addiction.
- suburbanization — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
- system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
- tailor's bunion — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
- tobacco budworm — the larva of a noctuid moth, Heliothis virescens, that damages the buds and young leaves of tobacco.
- vascular bundle — a longitudinal arrangement of strands of xylem and phloem, and sometimes cambium, that forms the fluid-conducting channels of vascular tissue in the rhizomes, stems, and leaf veins of vascular plants, the arrangement varying with the type of plant.
- viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
- welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
- winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.