8-letter words starting with bu
- butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- butchest — butch haircut.
- 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.