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.