10-letter words starting with bu
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- bull block — a machine for drawing wire in which the wire is pulled through the dies by a power-operated drum.
- bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
- bull moose — a member of the Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912
- bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
- bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
- bull trout — any large trout, esp the salmon trout
- bull wheel — any large driving gear among smaller gears.
- bull's-eye — The bull's-eye is the small circular area at the centre of a target.
- bull-nosed — having a rounded end
- bullbucker — a foreman who supervises fallers and buckers.
- bulldogged — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
- bulldogger — a person who brings an animal, esp a steer, to the ground by twisting its head from the horns
- bullethead — a head considered similar in shape to a bullet, as that of a person with a high, domelike forehead and cranium and short hair.
- bulletined — a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public.
- bulletwood — the wood of a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, widely used for construction due to its durability and toughness
- bullheaded — blindly stubborn; headstrong
- bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
- bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
- bullroarer — a wooden slat attached to a thong that makes a roaring sound when the thong is whirled: used esp by native Australians in religious rites
- bully beef — tinned corned beef
- bully tree — any of several tropical American trees of the sapodilla family that yield balata
- bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
- bum's rush — forcible ejection, as from a gathering
- bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
- bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
- bumblingly — in a bumbling manner
- bumfreezer — any of various similar styles of short jacket worn by men
- bump along — advance unevenly
- bump start — a method of starting a motor vehicle by engaging a low gear with the clutch depressed and pushing it or allowing it to run down a hill until sufficient momentum has been acquired to turn the engine by releasing the clutch
- bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
- bumpkinish — like a bumpkin
- bumpy ride — experience: difficult
- bumsucking — obsequious behaviour; toadying
- bunch pink — sweet william.
- bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- bundeswehr — the armed forces of Germany.
- bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
- bung it on — to behave in a pretentious manner
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling
- bunglingly — in a bungling manner
- bunionette — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- bunny chow — a dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with curry