9-letter words containing bu
- magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mandibula — (anatomy) mandible.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- marabunta — A large population of army ants on the move, eating anything in their wake.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- mbujimayi — a city in the S central Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- mealy bug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- merseburg — a city in E Germany, on the Saale River, in Saxony-Anhalt: residence of the dukes of Saxe-Merseburg (1656–1738); chemical industry. Pop: 35 358 (2003 est)
- minibuses — Plural form of minibus.
- mint bush — an aromatic shrub of the genus Prostanthera with a mintlike odour: family Lamiaceae (labiates): native to Australia
- misbutton — (transitive) To button wrongly.
- mixed bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- nebulated — having dim or indistinct markings, as a bird or other animal.
- nebuliser — Alternative spelling of nebulizer.
- nebulized — Simple past tense and past participle of nebulize.
- nebulizer — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
- nebulizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nebulize.
- nebulosus — (of a cloud) having indistinct details.
- neuenburg — Neuchâtel
- new build — the activity of building new houses and other buildings
- nonbuying — not buying or purchasing
- nutbutter — a food substance for spreading that is made from nuts
- obumbrant — overhanging; projecting over another part.
- obumbrate — to darken, overshadow, or cloud.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- ombudsman — a government official who hears and investigates complaints by private citizens against other officials or government agencies.
- ombudsmen — Plural form of ombudsman.
- omnibuses — Plural form of omnibus.
- osso buco — Italian veal dish
- otterburn — a village in central Northumberland, in NE England: battle of Chevy Chase 1388.
- outbursts — Plural form of outburst.
- ovalbumin — the principal protein of egg white.
- over-busy — actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime: busy with her work.
- overbuild — to erect too many buildings in (an area).
- overbuilt — Simple past tense and past participle of overbuild.
- ovimbundu — Mbundu (def 1).
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- pillsbury — Charles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
- pinch bug — a stag beetle
- pittsburg — a city in W California.
- plant bug — any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants.
- politburo — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- potatobug — Colorado potato beetle.
- pre-build — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- prebudget — produced, occurring or implemented prior to the release of the government's Budget
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- pressburg — German name of Bratislava.