10-letter words containing bu
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
- carburized — Simple past tense and past participle of carburize.
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- chinch bug — a black-and-white tropical American heteropterous insect, Blissus leucopterus, that is very destructive to grasses and cereals in the US: family Lygaeidae
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
- cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
- cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
- cockleburr — Alternative form of cocklebur.
- cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
- comburgess — (formerly) a fellow citizen or freeman of a borough
- combusting — Present participle of combust.
- combustion — Combustion is the act of burning something or the process of burning.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- combustors — Plural form of combustor.
- confabular — of or relating to confabulation
- contribute — If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- cotton bud — A cotton bud is a small stick with a ball of cotton wool at each end, which people use, for example, for applying make-up.
- counterbug — (humour) A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
- cross buck — an offensive play in which two running backs cross paths and charge into the line on opposite sides, one back receiving the ball from the quarterback and the other back faking possession.
- croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach
- cummerbund — A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress.
- cyberbully — someone who uses electronic communication to hurt, persecute or intimidate people
- cyberbunny — (abuse) Someone who knows absolutely nothing about computers and advises people who know absolutely nothing about computers. The term is used mostly on AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve, etc.
- cyclobutyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical derived from cyclobutane by the formal removal of a hydrogen atom.
- daisy bush — any of various shrubs of the genus Olearia, of Australia and New Zealand, with daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- damsel bug — any of various bugs of the carnivorous family Nabiidae, related to the bedbugs but feeding on other insects. The larvae of some species mimic and associate with ants
- debris bug — a bug of the family Cimicidae found where vegetable debris accumulates and feeding on small arthropods like springtails: related to the bedbugs
- debutantes — Plural form of debutante.
- disabusing — Present participle of disabuse.
- disburdens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disburden.
- disbursing — Present participle of disburse.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- doodle-bug — any of various small, squat vehicles.
- doodlebugs — Plural form of doodlebug.
- doorbuster — Informal. a retail item that is heavily discounted for a very limited time in order to draw customers to the store. the price of such an item.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- drug abuse — addiction to drugs.
- dumb bunny — a stupid person.
- dune buggy — vehicle used on sand
- dune-buggy — to drive or ride in a dune buggy.
- dust bunny — Slang. a loose, tangled ball of dust, lint, hair, etc., especially as found under a low piece of furniture.
- dvd burner — A DVD burner is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a computer onto a DVD.
- e-business — also e-commerce