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9-letter words containing bu

  • blackbuck — an Indian antelope, Antilope cervicapra, the male of which has spiral horns, a dark back, and a white belly
  • blackburn — a city in NW England, in Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority, Lancashire: formerly important for textiles, now has mixed industries. Pop: 105 085 (2001)
  • blackbutt — any of various Australian eucalyptus trees having rough fibrous bark and hard wood used as timber
  • blockbust — to encourage the sale of property by means of blockbusting
  • bontebuck — bontebok.
  • boom-bust — relating to a supposed cycle in which periods of prosperity and growth alternate with periods of recession
  • booze bus — a mobile police unit used to conduct drug and alcohol tests on drivers
  • brood bud — bulbil.
  • bubble up — A feeling that is bubbling up inside you is growing stronger and stronger.
  • bubblegum — a type of chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles through the lips.
  • bubbletop — a transparent dome, usually made of plastic or bulletproof glass, that serves as the roof or part of the roof of an automotive vehicle.
  • buccaneer — A buccaneer was a pirate, especially one who attacked and stole from Spanish ships in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • bucentaur — the state barge of Venice from which the doge and other officials dropped a ring into the sea on Ascension Day to symbolize the ceremonial marriage of the state with the Adriatic
  • bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
  • buck bean — a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers.
  • buck moth — a saturniid moth, Hemileuca maia, having delicate, grayish wings with a white band.
  • buck slip — Informal. a paper attached to and showing the destination and source of an interoffice memorandum, file, or the like.
  • buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
  • buckbrush — a flowering American shrub, Andrachne phyllantoides, of the family Euphorbiaceae
  • bucketful — A bucketful of something is the amount contained in a bucket.
  • buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
  • buckishly — in a buckish manner
  • buckle up — When you buckle up in a car or a plane, you fasten your seat belt.
  • buckley's — no chance at all
  • buckskins — (in the US and Canada) breeches, shoes, or a suit of buckskin
  • buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
  • buckteeth — a projecting tooth, especially an upper front tooth.
  • buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
  • bucktooth — a projecting upper front tooth
  • buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
  • buckyball — a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes
  • buckytube — a tube of carbon atoms structurally similar to buckminsterfullerene
  • bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
  • bucuresti — Bucharest
  • bud scale — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants, such as the rhododendron
  • bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
  • bud stick — a shoot of a plant from which buds are cut for the propagation of that plant.
  • budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
  • budgeteer — a person who makes a budget, esp in politics or business
  • budgeting — financial planning
  • budtender — Slang. a person who sells marijuana or marijuana products in a retail shop or medical dispensary.
  • buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
  • buffering — temporary storage of data
  • buffeting — response of an aircraft structure to buffet, esp an irregular oscillation of the tail
  • bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
  • bufotoxin — a toxin obtained from the skin glands of the European toad, Bufa vulgaris.
  • bug light — a yellow light bulb, used mainly outdoors, that does not attract insects.
  • bug-juice — an alcoholic beverage, especially of an inferior quality.
  • bugger me — Some people say bugger me to emphasize that they are very surprised about something.
  • bugger up — If someone buggers something up, they ruin it or spoil it.
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