18-letter words containing bu
- nebular hypothesis — the theory that the solar system evolved from a mass of nebular matter: prominent in the 19th century following its precise formulation by Laplace.
- on the back burner — low priority
- passive vocabulary — all the words, collectively, that a person can understand
- piperonyl butoxide — a light-brown liquid, C 1 9 H 3 0 O 5 , used chiefly as a synergist in certain insecticides.
- play silly buggers — to fool around and waste time
- second-degree burn — a burned place or area: a burn where fire had ripped through the forest.
- separate but equal — pertaining to a racial policy, formerly practiced in some parts of the United States, by which black people could be segregated if granted equal opportunities and facilities, as for education, transportation, or jobs.
- the weather bureau — the national agency responsible for collecting data about the weather and issuing forecasts
- the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- to bite the bullet — If someone bites the bullet, they accept that they have to do something unpleasant but necessary.
- to kick the bucket — If you say that someone has kicked the bucket, you mean that they have died.
- universal debugger — (tool, parallel) (udb) KSR's interactive source level debugger for serial and parallel programs written in KSR, Fortran, KSR C and KSR1 assembly language. Udb is a source level debugger for testing and debugging serial and parallel programs; it is compatible with GDB and dbx. The user can direct udb either by typing commands or graphically through an X-based window interface; the latter provides simultaneous display of source code, I/O and instructions. For parallel programs, operations can be carried out per-thread.
- uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
- white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
- wood-burning stove — cooker: fueled by wood