9-letter words starting with BU
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter BU. This section showcases how BU at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with BU, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| butterfly | 17 | a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down | - |
| buttercup | 15 | any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | - |
| bulldozer | 21 | large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | - |
| bumblebee | 17 | robust hairy social bee of temperate regions | - |
| buckwheat | 23 | a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour | - |
| bullfight | 18 | a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | - |
| buccaneer | 15 | someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation | - |
| burlesque | 20 | make a parody of | - |
| bullfinch | 19 | United States architect who designed the Capitol Building in Washington which served as a model for state capitols throughout the United States (1763-1844) | - |
| bucktooth | 20 | a large projecting front tooth | - |
| budgetary | 16 | of or relating to a budget | budgetary considerations |
| bulldozed | 22 | - | - |
| bunkhouse | 18 | - | - |
| bushwhack | 26 | wait in hiding to attack | - |
| bucketful | 20 | the quantity contained in a bucket | - |
| bumptious | 15 | offensively self-assertive | - |
| butcherer | 16 | - | - |
| butternut | 11 | North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | - |
| buckboard | 20 | an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; has a seat attached to a flexible board between the two axles | - |
| burnished | 15 | made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | a burnished brass knocker |
| bubalises | 13 | - | - |
| bubblegum | 18 | - | - |
| bubbliest | 15 | - | - |
| buccanier | 15 | - | - |
| bucentaur | 13 | - | - |
| buckaroos | 17 | - | - |
| buckayros | 20 | - | - |
| buckbeans | 19 | - | - |
| buckbrush | 22 | - | - |
| buckeroos | 17 | - | - |
| bucketing | 18 | - | - |
| buckhorns | 20 | - | - |
| buckhound | 21 | - | - |
| buckishly | 23 | - | - |
| bucklered | 18 | - | - |
| bucklings | 18 | - | - |
| buckrakes | 21 | - | - |
| buckramed | 20 | - | - |
| buckshees | 20 | - | - |
| buckshish | 23 | - | - |
| buckshots | 20 | - | - |
| buckskins | 21 | (used in the plural) breeches made of buckskin | - |
| bucktails | 17 | - | - |
| buckteeth | 20 | - | - |
| buckthorn | 20 | an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | - |
| buckyball | 22 | a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | - |
| buckytube | 22 | - | - |
| bucolical | 15 | - | - |
| buddleias | 13 | - | - |
| budgerows | 16 | - | - |
| budgeteer | 13 | - | - |
| budgeters | 13 | - | - |
| budgeting | 14 | - | - |
| budmashes | 17 | - | - |
| budtender | 13 | - | - |
| buffaloed | 18 | - | - |
| buffaloes | 17 | - | - |
| buffering | 18 | - | - |
| buffeters | 17 | - | - |
| buffeting | 18 | repeated heavy blows | - |
| bufotalin | 14 | - | - |
| buggeries | 13 | - | - |
| buggering | 14 | - | - |
| bugginess | 13 | the state of having bugs | - |
| bughouses | 15 | - | - |
| bugleweed | 16 | any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | - |
| buglosses | 12 | - | - |
| buhlworks | 21 | - | - |
| buhrstone | 14 | - | - |
| buildable | 14 | - | - |
| builddown | 16 | - | - |
| buildings | 13 | - | - |
| buildouts | 12 | - | - |
| buirdlier | 12 | - | - |
| bulbosity | 16 | - | - |
| bulbously | 16 | - | - |
| bulginess | 12 | the property possessed by a rounded convexity | - |
| bulgingly | 16 | - | - |
| bulimiacs | 15 | - | - |
| bulimuses | 13 | - | - |
| bulkheads | 19 | - | - |
| bulkiness | 15 | an unwieldy largeness | - |
| bullaries | 11 | - | - |
| bullbrier | 13 | a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | - |
| bullcooks | 17 | - | - |
| bulldozes | 21 | - | - |
| bulldusts | 12 | - | - |
| bulldykes | 19 | - | - |
| bullering | 12 | - | - |
| bulleting | 12 | - | - |
| bulletins | 11 | - | - |
| bulletrie | 11 | - | - |
| bullfrogs | 15 | - | - |
| bullgines | 12 | - | - |
| bullheads | 15 | - | - |
| bullhorns | 14 | - | - |
| bullishly | 17 | - | - |
| bullnecks | 17 | - | - |
| bullnosed | 12 | - | - |
| bullnoses | 11 | - | - |
| bullocked | 18 | - | - |
| bullpouts | 13 | - | - |
| bullrings | 12 | - | - |
| bullseyes | 14 | - | - |
| bullshits | 14 | - | - |
| bullshots | 14 | - | - |
| bullsnake | 15 | - | - |
| bullwaddy | 19 | - | - |
| bullweeds | 15 | - | - |
| bullwhack | 23 | - | - |
| bullwhips | 19 | - | - |
| bullyboys | 19 | - | - |
| bullycide | 17 | - | - |
| bullyings | 15 | - | - |
| bullyisms | 16 | - | - |
| bullyrags | 15 | - | - |
| bulnbulns | 13 | - | - |
| bulrushes | 14 | - | - |
| bulwaddee | 16 | - | - |
| bulwarked | 19 | - | - |
| bumalotis | 13 | - | - |
| bumbazing | 25 | - | - |
| bumbledom | 18 | - | - |
| bumblings | 16 | - | - |
| bumfluffs | 22 | - | - |
| bumfuzzle | 34 | - | - |
| bummaloti | 15 | - | - |
| bummarees | 15 | - | - |
| bumpering | 16 | - | - |
| bumpiness | 15 | the texture of a surface that has many bumps | - |
| bumpkinly | 22 | awkwardly simple and provincial | bumpkinly country boys |
| bumpology | 19 | - | - |
| bumsucker | 19 | - | - |
| bunburied | 14 | - | - |
| bunburies | 13 | - | - |
| bunchiest | 16 | - | - |
| bunchings | 17 | - | - |
| buncombes | 17 | - | - |
| bundlings | 13 | - | - |
| bundobust | 14 | - | - |
| bundwalls | 15 | - | - |
| bunfights | 18 | - | - |
| bungaloid | 13 | characterized by bungalows | the bungaloid suburbs |
| bungalows | 15 | - | - |
| bungholes | 15 | - | - |
| bunglings | 13 | - | - |
| bungwalls | 15 | - | - |
| bunkering | 16 | - | - |
| bunkmates | 17 | - | - |
| buntlines | 11 | - | - |
| buoyances | 16 | - | - |
| buoyantly | 17 | in a cheerfully buoyant manner | we accepted the opportunity buoyantly |
| buplevers | 16 | - | - |
| buprestid | 14 | - | - |
| bupropion | 15 | - | - |
| burbliest | 13 | - | - |
| burblings | 14 | - | - |
| burdashes | 15 | - | - |
| burdeners | 12 | - | - |
| burdening | 13 | - | - |
| burdenous | 12 | - | - |
| burdizzos | 30 | - | - |
| burganets | 12 | - | - |
| burgeoned | 13 | - | - |
| burgesses | 12 | - | - |
| burglared | 13 | - | - |
| burgonets | 12 | - | - |
| burgraves | 15 | - | - |
| burinists | 11 | - | - |
| burladero | 12 | - | - |
| burlettas | 11 | - | - |
| burleycue | 16 | - | - |
| burleying | 15 | - | - |
| burliness | 11 | - | - |
| burnables | 13 | - | - |
| burningly | 15 | - | - |
| burnisher | 14 | - | - |
| burnishes | 14 | - | - |
| burnoosed | 12 | - | - |
| burnooses | 11 | - | - |
| burnoused | 12 | - | - |
| burnouses | 11 | - | - |
| burnsides | 12 | - | - |
| burquinis | 20 | - | - |
| burrawang | 15 | - | - |
| burrowers | 14 | - | - |
| burrowing | 15 | - | - |
| burrstone | 11 | - | - |
| bursarial | 11 | - | - |
| bursaries | 11 | - | - |
| bursicons | 13 | - | - |
| bursiform | 16 | shaped like a pouch | - |
| burstiest | 11 | - | - |
| burstones | 11 | - | - |
| burthened | 15 | - | - |
| bushbucks | 22 | - | - |
| bushcraft | 19 | - | - |
| bushelers | 14 | - | - |
| bushelful | 17 | - | - |
| busheling | 15 | - | - |
| bushelled | 15 | - | - |
| busheller | 14 | - | - |
| bushelman | 16 | - | - |
| bushelmen | 16 | - | - |
| bushfires | 17 | - | - |
| bushflies | 17 | - | - |
| bushgoats | 15 | - | - |
| bushiness | 14 | - | - |
| bushlands | 15 | - | - |
| bushmeats | 16 | - | - |
| bushvelds | 18 | - | - |
| bushwalks | 21 | - | - |
| bushwoman | 19 | - | - |
| bushwomen | 19 | - | - |
| businessy | 14 | - | - |
| busticate | 13 | - | - |
| bustiness | 11 | - | - |
| bustlines | 11 | - | - |
| busulfans | 14 | - | - |
| busyworks | 21 | - | - |
| butadiene | 12 | a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; used in making synthetic rubbers | - |
| butanones | 11 | - | - |
| butchered | 17 | - | - |
| butcherly | 19 | poorly done | - |
| butchings | 17 | - | - |
| butchness | 16 | - | - |
| buteonine | 11 | any hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
| butlerage | 12 | - | - |
| butleries | 11 | - | - |
| butlering | 12 | - | - |
| butsudans | 12 | - | - |
| butterbur | 13 | small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | - |
| butterfat | 14 | the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made | - |
| butterier | 11 | - | - |
| butteries | 11 | - | - |
| butterine | 11 | - | - |
| buttering | 12 | - | - |
| buttheads | 15 | - | - |
| buttinski | 15 | - | - |
| buttinsky | 18 | a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
| buttocked | 18 | - | - |
| buttoners | 11 | - | - |
| buttonier | 11 | - | - |
| buttoning | 12 | - | - |
| buttstock | 17 | - | - |
| butylated | 15 | - | - |
| butylates | 14 | - | - |
| butylenes | 14 | - | - |
| butyrates | 14 | - | - |
| buxomness | 20 | the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed | - |
| buzkashis | 27 | - | - |
| buzzbaits | 31 | - | - |
| buzzingly | 33 | - | - |
| buzzkills | 33 | - | - |
| buzzwords | 33 | - | - |
