9-letter words containing bu
- bung-hole — a hole in a cask through which it is filled.
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- bunged up — congested
- bunk beds — a pair of beds constructed one above the other
- bunkerage — the act of bunkering a vessel.
- bunkering — a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box: a coal bunker.
- bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
- bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
- bunny hug — a ballroom dance with syncopated rhythm, popular in America in the early 20th century
- buoy boat — a boat used in whaling for holding and towing the whales killed during a hunt.
- buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
- buoyantly — in a happy, confident manner
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- bupropion — an antidepressant drug used to help people stop smoking
- burdenous — burdensome
- burgeoned — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
- burgesses — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
- burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
- burladero — a safe area for the bull-fighter in a bull ring
- burlesque — A burlesque is a performance or a piece of writing that makes fun of something by copying it in an exaggerated way. You can also use burlesque to refer to a situation in real life that is like this.
- burleycue — burlesque (def 3).
- burn down — If a building burns down or if someone burns it down, it is completely destroyed by fire.
- burn rate — The burn rate of a startup company is a measure of how fast it uses up its capital before becoming profitable.
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- burnsides — thick side whiskers worn with a moustache and clean-shaven chin
- burnt-out — Burnt-out vehicles or buildings have been so badly damaged by fire that they can no longer be used.
- burrawang — any of several Australian cycads of the genus Macrozamia, having an edible nut
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- burrstone — buhrstone
- bursarial — of, relating to, or paid by a bursar or bursary
- bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
- burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
- burst out — If someone bursts out laughing, crying, or making another noise, they suddenly start making that noise. You can also say that a noise bursts out.
- burthened — burden1 .
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- bus error — (processor) A fatal failure in the execution of a machine language instruction resulting from the processor detecting an anomalous condition on its bus. Such conditions include invalid address alignment (accessing a multi-byte number at an odd address), accessing a physical address that does not correspond to any device, or some other device-specific hardware error. A bus error triggers a processor-level exception which Unix translates into a "SIGBUS" signal which, if not caught, will terminate the current process.
- bush baby — any of a family (Galagidae) of nocturnal prosimian primates of tropical African forests, with a long, bushy tail and large eyes
- bush bean — any of various low, erect, bushy forms of the common garden bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- bush hook — Dialect. a tool with a curved blade and long handle used to cut bushes and undergrowth.
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
- bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
- bush-bash — to clear scrubland
- bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- bushelful — an amount equal to the capacity of a bushel.
- bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
- bushiness — a bushy quality or state