8-letter words containing bu
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- butt bra — an undergarment for supporting the buttocks
- butt end — butt1 (defs 1, 2).
- butt out — If someone tells you to butt out, they are telling you rudely to go away or not to interfere with what they are doing.
- buttered — having had butter spread over or applied to it
- butthead — a stupid person
- butthole — anus.
- butthurt — mental distress or irritation caused by an overreaction to a perceived personal slight, a bad outcome, etc.
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- butylene — any of four alkenes, including isobutylene, having the same formula, C4H8, but differing in properties and structure
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
- buy boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
- buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
- buy time — gain time (sense 2) (at , time)
- buy-back — A buy-back is a situation in which a company buys shares back from its investors.
- buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- buzz cut — A buzz cut is hairstyle in which the hair is cut very close to the head.
- buzz off — If someone buzzes off, they go away. People sometimes say buzz off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
- buzz saw — a power-operated circular saw
- buzz-cut — crew cut.
- buzz-saw — a power-operated circular saw, so named because of the noise it makes.
- buzzbait — a fishing lure with small blades that stir the water
- buzzkill — someone or something that stops people from enjoying themselves
- buzzword — A buzzword is a word or expression that has become fashionable in a particular field and is being used a lot by the media.
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- cleburne — a city in N Texas, near Fort Worth.
- columbus — a city in central Ohio: the state capital. Pop: 728 432 (2003 est)
- cottabus — (in ancient Greece) a game that was popular among young men at drinking parties and which involved throwing wine into a vessel while uttering the name of a beloved
- cumbungi — any of various tall Australian marsh plants of the genus Typha
- cunabula — a cradle
- daibutsu — a large representation of the Buddha.
- dan buoy — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
- data bus — (architecture) The bus (connections between and within the CPU, memory, and peripherals) used to carry data. Other connections are the address bus and control signals. The width and clock rate of the data bus determine its data rate (the number of bytes per second it can carry), which is one of the main factors determining the processing power of a computer. Most current processor designs use a 32-bit bus, meaning that 32 bits of data can be transferred at once. Some processors have an internal data bus which is wider than their external bus in order to make external connections cheaper while retaining some of the benefits in processing power of a wider bus. See also data path.
- debugged — to detect and remove defects or errors from.
- debugger — a program that is used to find and correct bugs in other programs
- debunked — Simple past tense and past participle of debunk.
- debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- deburred — to remove burrs from (a piece of machined work); burr.
- debutant — a person who is making a first appearance in a particular capacity, such as a sportsperson playing in a first game for a team
- debuting — a first public appearance on a stage, on television, etc.
- dewsbury — a town in N England, in Kirklees unitary authority, West Yorkshire: formerly a centre of the woollen industry. Pop: 54 341 (2001)
- dim bulb — a stupid person; dimwit.
- disabuse — to free (a person) from deception or error.
- disburse — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.