9-letter words containing bu
- corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
- crossbuck — (in the US) a white cross-shaped road sign used at railway crossings
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- danburite — a rare mineral, calcium borosilicate, CaB 2 Si 2 O 8 , occurring in pegmatite in yellow or colorless crystals resembling topaz.
- debuggers — Plural form of debugger.
- debugging — the process of locating and removing faults in computer programs
- debulking — Present participle of debulk.
- debunkers — Plural form of debunker.
- debunking — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- deburring — Present participle of deburr.
- debutante — A debutante is a young woman from the upper classes who has started going to social events with other young people.
- debutants — Plural form of debutant.
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- disabused — Simple past tense and past participle of disabuse.
- disabuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disabuse.
- disbudded — Simple past tense and past participle of disbud.
- disburden — to remove a burden from; rid of a burden.
- disbursal — The act of disbursing money.
- disbursed — Pay out (money from a fund).
- disburser — One who disburses money.
- disburses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disburse.
- do a bunk — run away
- doodlebug — any of various small, squat vehicles.
- door-buck — a sawhorse.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- drag bunt — an in-motion bunt for a base hit usually attempted by a left-handed batter, who starts for first base while trailing the bat to meet the ball, without squaring around, in order to catch the infield by surprise. Compare sacrifice (def 6).
- dyersburg — a city in W Tennessee.
- ebullient — overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited: The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- ehrenburg — Ilya Grigorievich (iljˈja ɡriˈɡɔrjɪvitʃ). 1891–1967, Soviet novelist and journalist. His novel The Thaw (1954) was the first published in the Soviet Union to deal with repression under Stalin
- excalibur — (in Arthurian legend) the magic sword of King Arthur
- fabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of fabulate.
- fabulator — a person who fabulates, a story-teller
- fabulists — Plural form of fabulist.
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- fast buck — money made easily or quickly and sometimes unscrupulously: He speculated briefly in the commodities market in the hope of making a fast buck.
- film buff — a connoisseur of or expert on cinema and films
- fist bump — a gesture of greeting, friendship, triumph, etc., in which two people make a fist and bump each other's knuckles.
- fitchburg — a city in N Massachusetts.
- flashbulb — a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.
- flensburg — a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein: taken from Denmark by Prussia in 1864; voted to remain German in 1920. Pop: 85 300 (2003 est)
- galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.
- globulins — Plural form of globulin.
- globulite — (mineral) A rudimentary spherical form of crystallite.
- globulous — globe-shaped; spherical.
- glyburide — a hypoglycemic substance, C 23 H 28 ClN 3 O 5 S, used orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- gong buoy — a buoy in which one or more gongs are struck by hammers that swing freely with the motion of the buoy.
- goosebump — The bumps on a person's skin, at the base of body hair, which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions.
- grass bug — any of various hemipterous insects of the family Rhopalidae that feed chiefly on grasses and occasionally on certain trees, as the box elder.