16-letter words containing bu
- globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
- have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
- hot buttered rum — a drink made with rum, hot water, and sugar, served with a lump of butter in a mug.
- incombustibility — The quality or state of being incombustible.
- isobutyl nitrite — butyl nitrite.
- lean-burn engine — an engine designed to use a lean mixture of fuel and air in order to reduce petrol consumption and exhaust emissions
- leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
- lightbulb moment — a moment of sudden inspiration, revelation, or recognition
- like gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- limited-stop bus — a bus which only stops at a small number of predetermined stops, rather than on request
- line of business — profession, trade: field
- madame butterfly — an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.
- martin van buren — Martin, 1782–1862, 8th president of the U.S. 1837–41.
- mobutu sese seko — (Joseph-Désiré Mobutu) 1930–97, Zairian political leader: president 1965–97.
- murasaki shikibu — Lady, 978?–1031? Japanese poet and novelist.
- non-attributable — 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.
- non-bureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
- non-contribution — the act of contributing.
- non-contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- norwegian buhund — a slightly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect pointed ears and a short thick tail carried curled over its back
- nubuck (leather) — tanned leather similar to suede, but with the nap on the grain side
- operating budget — money allocated to a project
- photograph album — bound book for photos
- pietermaritzburg — a province in the E part of the Republic of South Africa. 35,284 sq. mi. (91,886 sq. km). Capital: Pietermaritzburg.
- pit bull terrier — American Staffordshire terrier.
- planetary nebula — an expanding shell of thin ionized gas that is ejected from and surrounds a hot, dying star of about the same mass as the sun; the gas absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the central star and reemits it as visible light by the process of fluorescence.
- powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
- rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
- reserve buoyancy — the difference between the volume of a hull below the designed waterline and the volume of the hull below the lowest opening incapable of being made watertight.
- rock creek butte — a mountain in NE Oregon: highest peak in the Blue Mountains. 9106 feet (2777 meters).
- saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
- san buenaventura — a city in SW California.
- schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
- south burlington — a town in NW Vermont.
- south sea bubble — the financial crash that occurred in 1720 after the South Sea Company had taken over the national debt in return for a monopoly of trade with the South Seas, causing feverish speculation in their stocks
- southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
- squeaky-bum time — the tense final matches in the race to a league championship, esp from the point of view of the leaders
- substance abuser — a person who takes an excessive amount of drugs in a manner that is detrimental to health
- sulfur butterfly — any of various yellow or orange butterflies of the family Pieridae.
- swamp buttonwood — the buttonbush.
- sweet pepperbush — a shrub, Clethra alnifolia, of the eastern and southern coastal U.S., having numerous erect clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
- tarantula nebula — a huge bright emission nebula located in the S hemisphere in the Large Magellanic Cloud
- tertiary bursary — a noncompetitive award granted to all pupils who have passed a university entrance examination
- teutoburg forest — region of low, forested mountains, mostly in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: highest point, c. 1,500 ft (457 m)
- teutoburger wald — a chain of wooded hills in Germany, in Westphalia: Romans defeated by German tribes a.d.
- the easter bunny — the rabbit that brings Easter eggs
- the next but one — the one after the next
- tibetan buddhism — the form of Mahayana Buddhism that developed and is practiced primarily in Tibet and some nearby nations: its spiritual leader is the Dalai Lama