9-letter words containing bu
- prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
- rebuilded — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- rebukeful — (of a person) quick to scold or reprimand
- rebutment — the act of rebutting something or the state of being rebutted; rebuttal
- rebutting — to refute by evidence or argument.
- reimburse — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- retribute — to give back (a payment, reward, punishment, etc) or to give in return for something
- ring buoy — a ring-shaped life preserver.
- river bug — a small inflatable single-seat craft that resembles an armchair
- rope burn — a burn on the skin caused by friction from a rope
- sainsbury — David John, Baron. born 1940, British businessman and politician, chief executive of the Sainsbury supermarket chain (1992–98); science minister (1998–2006)
- salisbury — Harrison, 1908–93, U.S. journalist and writer.
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- scorbutic — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with scurvy.
- sex abuse — rape, sexual assault, or sexual molestation.
- shelburne — William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, William Petty Fizmaurice Lansdowne.
- shibuichi — a Japanese alloy of copper and silver know for its silver-grey and muted blue and green colours, usually used in ornamentation
- shore bug — any of various small, predaceous hemipterous insects of the family Saldidae, some of which are burrowers, commonly occurring along grassy shores of ponds, streams, brackish lakes, and seacoasts.
- shubunkin — a multicoloured goldfish, Carassius auratus, with black spots and red patches
- sideburns — If a man has sideburns, he has a strip of hair growing down the side of each cheek.
- ski bunny — a female who greatly enjoys skiing
- slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
- smokebush — a plant, Cotinus coggygria, with purple leaves and small flowers that turn grey-white before they fall
- sodbuster — a farmer who works the soil.
- southbury — a town in S Connecticut.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- spicebush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
- squawbush — a rank-smelling, sprawling shrub, Rhus trilobata malacophylla, of the cashew family, native to California, having spikes of greenish flowers.
- starburst — a pattern of lines or rays radiating from a central point.
- stilt bug — any of various slender, long-legged, brownish bugs of the family Berytidae, inhabiting dense vegetation: sometimes classified with the leaf-footed bugs.
- stingbull — Trachinus draco, a species of fish with venomous spines on their dorsal fins that are capable of wounding humans
- stink bug — any of numerous broad, flat bugs of the family Pentatomidae, that emit a disagreeable odor.
- subbureau — a bureau subordinate to the main bureau
- subungual — of, pertaining to, bearing, or shaped like a nail, claw, or hoof.
- subursine — resembling a bear to some degree
- sugarbush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.
- sunburned — burned by sun's heat
- swinburne — Algernon Charles, 1837–1909, English poet and critic.
- tabularly — of, relating to, or arranged in a table or systematic arrangement by columns, rows, etc., as statistics.
- tabulated — to put or arrange in a tabular, systematic, or condensed form; formulate tabularly.
- tabulator — a person or thing that tabulates.
- taste bud — one of numerous small, flask-shaped bodies, chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue, which are the end organs for the sense of taste.
- tchambuli — a member of an indigenous people of Papua New Guinea.
- tewksbury — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- the buffs — (formerly) the Third Regiment of Foot, esp the Royal East Kent Regiment
- the butts — the target range in archery
- thon buri — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thornbush — any of various shrubs or bushes having spines or thorns.
- trebuchet — a medieval engine of war with a sling for hurling missiles.
- tribulate — to trouble or oppress