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 : (transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To cause to break by any means.

bulge

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

Noun : The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

Noun : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.

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.

Noun : A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.

Noun : A hired thug.

bunch

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

Noun : (uncountable) The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are act

Noun : (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.

burke

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

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.

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

buddy

Noun : A friend or casual acquaintance.

Noun : A partner for a particular activity.

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.

bussy

Noun : (informal) A bus driver.

Adjective : (informal, rare) Relating to, resembling, or fond of buses.

Noun : (gay slang, LGBTQ) The anus of a 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, intransitive) To work as a butcher.

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 : A horn used by hunters.

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

Noun : The sound of something that bugles.

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 : (now chiefly historical) A purse.

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

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

bunco

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

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.

Noun : A brigand.

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 : 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.

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

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 : (countable) A surname.

Noun : A placename

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) The stereotypical white male; John Doe.

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 : Abounding in burs.

Adjective : Resembling or characteristic of a bur.

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

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

Noun : A small horse-drawn cart.

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

Noun : A hearse.

bumpy

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

Adjective : Covered with or full of bumps.

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

Noun : (anatomy) Synonym of cheek.

buena

Noun : A female given name.

bucky

Noun : (British, slang) A gun.

Noun : A surname

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

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

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

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 : (mining) A miner who works under contract, receiving a fixed amount per ton of coal or ore.

burka

Noun : A Central Asian garment that covers the whole body, which has a net screen covering the eyes so they cannot be seen, and is worn by women.

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.

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

Noun : (childish, slang) bottom; buttocks

Adjective : (slang) Lousy; depressed or disappointed.

budai

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

Noun : An urban township in Chiayi County, Taiwan.

Noun : A statue or image of Budai.

bugly

Adjective : (slang) Exceptionally ugly.

budha

Noun : the Sanskrit word for the planet Mercury, personified as a god.

Noun : Budha or Buda is a surname found in Nepal.

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 place name:

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

burns

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Robert Burns, Scottish writer.

Noun : A place in the United States:

bushy

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

Adjective : Growing thickly.

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

butyl

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

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

burqa

Noun : Alternative spelling of burka. [A Central Asian garment that covers the whole body, which has a net screen covering the eyes so they cannot be seen, and is worn by women.]

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 : Buckaroo.

Noun : Young lad, friend, pal (used in addressing someone).

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 : (slang) A woman's breast.

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

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

bungo

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

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.

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 : Size, specifically, volume.

Noun : Any huge body or structure.

Noun : The major part of something.

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 : Having a buzzing sound.

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

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

bundt

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

buick

Noun : A surname.

Noun : An American car brand belonging to GM.

Noun : A car of this make.

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.

Noun : A district in central Singapore, around a street of the same name.

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”) [Familiar term of address.]

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 : To buy back for the owner at an auction.

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 : money

bulgy

Adjective : Having one or more bulges; bulging

butts

Noun : (countable) A surname.

Noun : A placename

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

buchu

Noun : A South African shrub in the genus Agathosma.

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

bulls

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

Noun : A surname.

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 : 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 : (dated, neuroanatomy) The medulla oblongata.

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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