5-letter words containing bu
- buteo — a type of American hawk
- butle — to act as butler
- butsu — a representation of the Buddha.
- butte — an isolated steep-sided flat-topped hill
- butts — a large cask for wine, beer, or ale.
- butty — A butty is a sandwich.
- butut — a Gambian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a dalasi
- butyl — of, consisting of, or containing any of four isomeric forms of the group C4H9–
- buxom — If you describe a woman as buxom, you mean that she looks healthy and attractive and has a rounded body and big breasts.
- buyer — A buyer is a person who is buying something or who intends to buy it.
- buyup — an act or instance of buying up: a spectacular buyup of the city's most valuable real estate.
- buzau — city in Walachia, SE Romania: pop. 149,000
- buzzy — If a place, event, or atmosphere is buzzy, it is lively, interesting, and modern.
- debug — When someone debugs a computer program, they look for the faults in it and correct them so that it will run properly.
- debur — to remove burs from (a piece of machined metal)
- debus — to unload (goods) or (esp of troops) to alight from a motor vehicle
- debut — The debut of a performer or sports player is their first public performance, appearance, or recording.
- embus — To put (troops) onto a bus.
- gabun — Gabon.
- gebur — a tenant farmer
- gibus — opera hat.
- iburg — A program by Christopher W. Fraser <[email protected]>, David R. Hanson <[email protected]> and Todd A. Proebsting <[email protected]> that generates a fast tree parser. Iburg is compatible with Burg. Both programs accept a cost-augmented tree grammar and emit a C program that discovers an optimal parse of trees in the language described by the grammar. They have been used to construct fast optimal instruction selectors for use in code generation. Burg uses BURS. Iburg's matchers do dynamic programming at compile time.
- imbue — to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.: The new political leader was imbued with the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
- irbus — IrDA Control
- jambu — Alternative form of jambul.
- jebus — an ancient Canaanite city taken by David: it later became Jerusalem.
- kabul — a republic in central Asia, NW of India and E of Iran. 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km). Capital: Kabul.
- kombu — a brown Japanese seaweed, sun-dried before use in sushi, stocks, etc.
- konbu — a brown Japanese seaweed, sun-dried before use in sushi, stocks, etc.
- lobus — a lobe.
- nubus — The proprietary expansion bus used on Apple Macintosh personal computers.
- obuda — a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube (Buda and Obuda) and one on the E bank (Pest)
- ombud — (informal) ombudsman.
- rebus — a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols, etc., that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables: Two gates and a head is a rebus for Gateshead.
- rebut — to refute by evidence or argument.
- rebuy — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- robus — Hugo, 1885–1963, U.S. sculptor.
- rubus — a fruit-bearing genus of shrubs including raspberries and blackberries
- sebum — the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands.
- smbus — System Management Bus
- tabun — an organic compound used in chemical warfare as a lethal nerve gas. Formula: C2H5OP(O)(CN)N(CH3)2
- tibur — ancient name of Tivoli.
- urubu — a black vulture of S America, Catharista urubu
- zebub — a large African fly harmful to cattle
- zebus — Plural form of zebu.