9-letter words containing bu
- bushwhack — to ambush
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- businessy — of, relating to, typical of, or suitable for the world of commercial or industrial business
- busticate — to break
- bustiness — the state of being busty
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-loop — tight loop
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
- butcher's — a look
- butchered — a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
- butcherer — a person who butchers
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
- butchness — the state of being butch
- butenandt — Adolf Frederick Johann. 1903–95, German organic chemist. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1939) for his pioneering work on sex hormones
- buteonine — of or relating to hawks
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
- buthelezi — Mangosouthu Gatsha (ˌmæŋɡəʊˈsuːtuː ˈɡætʃə), known as Chief Buthelezi. born 1928, Zulu leader, chief minister of the KwaZulu territory of South Africa from 1970 until its abolition in 1994; founder of the Inkatha movement and advocate of Zulu autonomy; minister of home affairs (1994–2004)
- butlerage — a butler's position or rank
- butt weld — a welded butt joint
- butt-dial — Also, butt dial. a call made in this way: Sorry, it must have been a butt-dial.
- butter up — If someone butters you up, they try to please you because they want you to help or support them.
- butterbur — a plant of the Eurasian genus Petasites with fragrant whitish or purple flowers, woolly stems, and leaves formerly used to wrap butter: family Asteraceae (composites)
- buttercup — A buttercup is a small plant with bright yellow flowers.
- butterfat — the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made, consisting of a mixture of glycerides, mainly butyrin, olein, and palmitin
- butterfly — A butterfly is an insect with large colourful wings and a thin body.
- butterine — an artificial butter made partly from milk
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- butternut — a walnut tree, Juglans cinerea of E North America
- buttinski — a person who interferes in the affairs of others; meddler.
- buttinsky — a busybody
- button up — to fasten (a garment) with a button or buttons
- buttstock — the part of a gun behind the breech
- buttstrap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- buxtehude — Dietrich (ˈdiːtrɪç). 1637–1707, Danish composer and organist, resident in Germany from 1668, who influenced Bach and Handel
- buzz bomb — a robot bomb, esp. as used against England by Germany in WWII
- buzz term — buzzword.
- buzz word — a word, often originating in a particular jargon, that becomes a vogue word in the community as a whole or among a particular group
- buzzingly — in a buzzing manner
- carbuncle — A carbuncle is a large swelling under the skin.
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- carburate — carburet.
- carburize — to increase the carbon content of (the surface of a low-carbon steel) so that the surface can be hardened by heat treatment
- cat-built — (of a sailing vessel) having a bluff bow and straight stern without a figurehead.
- cd burner — A CD burner is the same as a CD writer.
- cleobulus — flourished 560 b.c, Greek sage and lyric poet, a native and tyrant of Lindus, Rhodes.
- cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
- combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.
- combustor — the combustion system of a jet engine or ramjet, comprising the combustion chamber, the fuel injection apparatus, and the igniter