5 Letter Words That Start With BU

build

Verb : (transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.

Verb : (transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.

Verb : (transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.

buxom

Adjective : (of a woman) Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.

Adjective : (dated) Full of health, vigour, and good temper.

Adjective : (obsolete) Physically flexible or unresisting.

burst

Verb : (intransitive) To break from internal pressure.

Verb : (intransitive) To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.

Verb : (intransitive) To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.

bulge

Noun : An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.

Verb : (intransitive) To stick out from a surface without breaking it.

Verb : (intransitive) (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out; to swell; to belly.

bully

Noun : A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.

Verb : (transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.

Verb : (transitive) To act aggressively towards.

bunch

Noun : A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

Noun : An informal body of friends.

Noun : (US, informal) A considerable amount.

burke

Verb : (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To murder by suffocation.

Verb : (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.

Verb : (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.

buddy

Noun : A friend or casual acquaintance.

Noun : An informal and friendly address to a stranger, usually male; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know.

Noun : A partner for a particular activity.

bussy

Noun : (gay slang, LGBTQ) The anus of a man.

Noun : (gay slang, LGBTQ, by extension) Any anus, in general.

Noun : (gay slang, LGBTQ, sometimes derogatory) The vulva or vagina of a trans man.

bunny

Noun : (informal, childish) A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.

Noun : A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.

Noun : (sports) In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.

butch

Adjective : (slang, originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.

Noun : (slang, LGBTQ, countable) A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.

Verb : (nonstandard, transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

bulky

Adjective : Being large in size, mass, or volume; big, fat or muscular.

Adjective : Unwieldy.

Adjective : (bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.

bulla

Noun : (biology, medicine) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:

Noun : (biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is more than 5 mm in diameter.

Noun : (archaeology) A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.

burly

Adjective : (usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular.

Adjective : (British, East End of London, slang) Great, amazing, unbelievable.

Adjective : (US, slang, surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.

bugle

Noun : (music) A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series

Noun : A horn used by hunters.

Verb : To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.

budge

Verb : (intransitive) To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.

Verb : (transitive) To move; to shift from a fixed position.

Verb : To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.

busty

Adjective : Having large breasts.

burnt

Adjective : Damaged or injured by fire or heat.

Adjective : (of food) Carbonised.

Adjective : (of a person) Having a sunburn.

burma

Noun : A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Capital: Naypyidaw. Officially known as Myanmar.

burse

Noun : A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies.

Noun : (now chiefly historical) A purse.

Noun : (ecclesiastical) An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use.

bunco

Noun : (US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To swindle (someone).

Noun : (uncountable) A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.

bursa

Noun : (anatomy) Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces.

Noun : Any of various pouch-like organs for storing semen prior to copulation in the male or for receiving semen in the female.

Noun : A diverticulum on the cloaca of young birds, which serves as a lymphatic organ and as part of the immune system, but which atrophies as the bird ages.

built

Adjective : (informal) well-built, muscular or toned.

Noun : (obsolete) Shape; build; form of structure.

bunko

Noun : Alternative spelling of bunco. [(US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.]

Verb : Alternative spelling of bunco. [(transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To swindle (someone).]

butte

Noun : (US) An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.

Noun : A city, the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States, with which it is a consolidated city-county known as Butte-Silver Bow.

Noun : A census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States.

bubba

Noun : (Southern US, childish) Brother; used as term of familiar address.

Noun : A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.

Noun : (Southern US) A nickname for a brother, usually the eldest brother and initially used only by young children before sometimes spreading to become a person's general adult nickname.

burro

Noun : A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is feral and lives in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.

burry

Adjective : (of speech, or other produced sound) Characterized by a burr.

Adjective : Resembling or characteristic of a bur.

Adjective : Abounding in burs.

buffy

Adjective : Of a buff color.

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.

buffa

Noun : (music) The comic actress in an opera.

Noun : A surname.

buggy

Adjective : (computing) Containing programming errors.

Noun : A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.

Adjective : Infested with insects.

bumpy

Adjective : Covered with or full of bumps.

Adjective : Rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements.

bumps

Noun : (British, with "the") The ritual tossing of someone into the air to celebrate their birthday.

burra

Adjective : (India) Big or important, used as a respectful honorific.

bucca

Noun : (anatomy) Synonym of cheek.

Noun : (UK, Cornwall) A storm spirit in Cornish folklore, traditionally believed to inhabit mines and coastal communities.

buena

Noun : A female given name.

bucky

Noun : (British, slang) A gun.

Noun : A nickname for someone with the name Buck, or a given name derived from this.

Noun : A surname

bundu

Noun : (South Africa) A wilderness region, away from cities.

Noun : (historical) A state in Africa, later a French protectorate dependent on the colony of Senegal.

Noun : Alternative form of Bondo (“Sande society”). [Synonym of Sande (“African women's organization”).]

bulby

Adjective : bulbous

bunka

buyer

Noun : A person who makes one or more purchases.

Noun : (retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.

Noun : (manufacturing) A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.

burgh

Noun : (UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).

Noun : (Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).

Noun : A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.

butty

Noun : (UK, chiefly Northern England, New Zealand, Ireland) A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.

Noun : (colloquial, UK, now chiefly Wales and West Country) A friend.

Noun : (colloquial, UK) A workmate.

burka

Noun : A dress made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of young lambs of the breed of that name), traditionally worn by men of the Caucasus region.

Noun : Alternative form of burqa. [(strictly) An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).]

buy up

Verb : (idiomatic, transitive) To buy the whole of; to purchase the entire stock of something.

Verb : (idiomatic, transitive) To buy whatever is available of something.

Verb : (idiomatic, transitive) To buy off; to pay in blackmail money or similar.

bunda

Noun : (slang) Ass, butt.

Noun : (astronomy) Xi Aquarii A, one of the stars in the binary star system Xi Aquarii.

bummy

Adjective : (slang) Lousy; depressed or disappointed.

Adjective : (US, UK, informal) Like a bum (homeless person or hobo)

Noun : (childish, slang) bottom; buttocks

budai

Noun : (Buddhism) A 10th-century monk, revered as Maitreya, a bodhisattva, in the Mahayana Buddhist pantheon; the Laughing Buddha.

Noun : A statue or image of Budai.

Noun : An urban township in Chiayi County, Taiwan.

bugly

Adjective : (slang) Exceptionally ugly.

budha

Noun : (astronomy) Mercury.

Noun : (Hinduism) A deity in Hinduism, son of the moon god Chandra, associated with intelligence and wisdom.

bumpf

Noun : Alternative spelling of bumf. [(derogatory) Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.]

bunta

Adjective : (Australia) Crazy, riotous, out of control.

busby

Noun : A fur hat, usually with a plume in the front, worn by certain members of the military or brass bands.

Noun : A suburban village in East Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5756).

Noun : A suburb of Sydney in the City of Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia, named after James Busby.

burns

Noun : Robert Burns, Scottish writer.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A place in the United States:

bushy

Adjective : Growing thickly.

Adjective : Like a bush in having many branches that spread out densely in all directions.

Noun : Alternative form of bushie. [(Australia, colloquial) Someone who lives in or is familiar with the Australian outback; a bushman or bushwoman.]

butyl

Noun : A synthetic rubber made by the polymerization of isobutylene.

Noun : (organic chemistry) Any of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₄H₉, formally derived from butane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.

burqa

Noun : (strictly) An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).

Noun : (loosely) Another kind of garment worn by Muslim women (of any denomination) to observe sartorial hijab:

Noun : A garment incorporating a niqab (veil for the face).

buffo

Noun : (music) A comic singer, particularly in comic opera

Noun : A surname from Italian.

bumph

Noun : Alternative form of bumf. [(derogatory) Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.]

bucko

Noun : Used as a term of address: young lad, friend, pal.

Noun : (also attributive) A boastful or bullying man.

Noun : A surname from Czech.

buret

Noun : Alternative spelling of burette. [(chemistry) A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration.]

bubby

Noun : (childish) Familiar term of address for a boy; bub; bubba.

Noun : (slang, dated) A woman's breast.

Noun : Alternative spelling of bubbe (“grandmother”). [A grandmother.]

bungo

Noun : A kind of large canoe used in the southern United States, Central America, and South America.

Noun : A large sailboat once used in Mexico.

Noun : A Japanese written language established mainly during the Heian period, circa 900–1200 C.E., and commonly used until circa 1900.

buffs

Noun : Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.

Noun : A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.

Noun : A brownish yellow colour.

bulks

Noun : The major part of something.

Noun : Size, specifically, volume.

Noun : Any huge body or structure.

buoys

Noun : the sixth studio album by American musician Panda Bear, released on February 8, 2019.

busky

Adjective : Alternative form of bosky. [Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees.]

buzzy

Adjective : (informal) Being the subject of cultural buzz.

Adjective : (informal) Using a large number of buzzwords.

Adjective : Having a buzzing sound.

bundt

Noun : A baking pan with a hollow, circular, raised area in the middle.

buick

Noun : An American car brand belonging to GM.

Noun : A car of this make.

Noun : A surname.

bulle

Noun : A municipality, the capital of Gruyère district, Fribourg canton, Switzerland.

Noun : A commune in Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

Noun : Obsolete form of bull. [An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.]

bueno

burda

Noun : A surname.

budde

Noun : A surname.

bugis

Noun : A member of a people of southern Sulawesi.

Noun : The Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by these people.

Adjective : Pertaining to the Bugis or their language.

buist

Noun : (Scotland) A box or chest.

Noun : (Scotland) A mark put on sheep or cattle to indicate ownership.

Verb : (Scotland, transitive) To mark with a buist.

buggs

Noun : Electronic surveillance.

budke

Noun : A surname.

bunky

Noun : Term of familiar address

Noun : Alternative form of bunkie (“bunkmate”). [A bunkmate, someone with whom one shares a bunk bed.]

burie

Verb : Obsolete spelling of bury. [To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.]

busca

bucak

Noun : (historical) A subdistrict of a district within a Turkish province.

bugan

Noun : hobgoblin, evil spirit

bugos

Noun : Cristian Bugatti, also known as Bugo (born 2 August 1973 in Rho, Italy), is an Italian singer-songwriter, artist and actor.

bukka

bunzi

Noun : (also Mpulu Bunzi and Phulu Bunzi) a serpent water spirit and goddess of rain in traditional Kongo religion that was first venerated by the Woyo people of the Kingdom of Ngoyo.

bug's

buy in

Verb : To accept an idea as valid; to join in on a concept.

Verb : To invest as part of a group; to put one's personal stake in an investment.

Verb : (finance) For the buyer of securities, whose seller fails to deliver the securities contracted for, to buy the securities from a third party and demand the difference in price from the original seller.

burin

Noun : A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Noun : A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.

Noun : A prehistoric flint tool

bucks

Noun : A surname from German.

Noun : Casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often white or a neutral colour.

Noun : Abbreviation of Buckinghamshire (in postal addresses). [An inland county of England bounded by Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Greater London, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.]

bulgy

Adjective : Having one or more bulges; bulging

butts

Noun : An unincorporated community in Jenkins County, Georgia, United States.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Missouri, United States.

Noun : (countable) A surname.

buchu

Noun : (South Africa) Medicinal leaves from the shrub that are often used in brandy; this is an old Dutch medicine.

Noun : A South African shrub in the genus Agathosma.

bulls

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A small town in Rangitikei district, Manawatū-Whanganui, North Island, New Zealand.

bunce

Noun : A surname.

Noun : (UK, Ireland, regional) A bonus; additional pay; money.

Verb : (transitive, slang, archaic) To obtain money from, by trickery.

butut

Noun : A unit of currency, worth one hundredth of a Gambian dalasi.

buteo

Noun : Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo.

buran

Noun : A Soviet spacecraft, modeled after the American Space Shuttle.

Noun : Alternative form of borani. [A traditional Iranian dish of yoghurt mixed with a cooked vegetable, most commonly spinach.]

bulbs

Noun : A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).

Noun : The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.

Noun : Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.

buxus

Noun : a genus of about seventy species in the family Buxaceae.

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