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— English words —
  • bu n. Abbreviation of bushel. (a unit of weight or dry measure)
  • bu n. Clipping of bureau.
  • Bu n. (Chemistry) Abbreviation of butyl.
  • BU prop.n. Initialism of Baylor University.
  • BU prop.n. Initialism of Boston University.
  • BU prop.n. Initialism of Bournemouth University.
  • BU adj. (Nautical) Initialism of broken up: referring to the scrapping of a decommissioned ship.
  • BU adj. (Numismatic slang) Initialism of brilliant uncirculated.
  • B/U n. Abbreviation of back-up.
— International convention —
  • BU sym. (International standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Burma from 1974 to 1989.
  • .bu n. The ccTLD for Burma (not in use since re-naming of country to Myanmar, see .mm) as assigned by the IANA.
— Foreign words, define in English —
  • Acehnese
    • bu n. Food in general.
  • Acehnese - Tarao
    • bu n. Rice.
  • Aiwoo
    • bu n. Night.
  • Amanab - Bukawa - Gresi - Jabem - Kapauri - Kemtuik - Mekwei - Mlap - Nimboran - Sentani - Tabla
    • bu n. Water.
  • Amasi
    • bu n. Dog (canine).
  • Azerbaijani
    • bu det. This, these.
    • bu pron. He, she.
  • Azerbaijani - Crimean tatar - Turkish
    • bu pron. This.
  • Bahnar
  • Czech
    • bú interj. Moo (sound of a cow).
  • Dalmatian
  • Danish
    • bu v. Imperative of bue.
  • Emilian
    • bû n. Plural of bå.
  • Gokana
  • Guinea-bissau creole
    • bu pron. You (second person singular).
  • Hungarian
    • bú n. Sorrow, grief.
    • bú interj. Moo (the characteristic sound made by a cow).
  • Icelandic
    • bú n. Housekeeping.
    • bú n. Farm.
    • bú n. Estate.
  • Igbo
  • Indonesian
    • bu n. (Slightly informal, between two speakers) mam.
    • Bu n. (As a title) Mrs, Ms, madam.
    • Bu n. (As a term of address) Mum.
  • Irish
    • bú n. Hyacinth.
    • bú interj. Boo!
  • Japanese
    • bu rom. Rōmaji transcription of ぶ.
    • bu rom. Rōmaji transcription of ブ.
    • bū rom. Rōmaji transcription of ぶう.
  • Kanuri
  • Lower sorbian
    • bu v. Second-person singular passive of byś.
    • bu v. Third-person singular passive of byś.
  • Mada
    • bū n. Aardvark (Orycteropus afer).
  • Malay
    • bu n. Mother.
  • Maltese
    • bu n. (Obsolete) father.
  • Mandarin
    • bu rom. Nonstandard spelling of bū.
    • bu rom. Nonstandard spelling of bú.
    • bu rom. Nonstandard spelling of bǔ.
    • bu rom. Nonstandard spelling of bù.
    • bú rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繼.
    • bú rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 轎.
    • bú rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醪.
    • bú rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 樸.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 不.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 佈.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 卢.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 吥.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 咘.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埔.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埗.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埚.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埠.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 布.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怖.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 悑.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 捗.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 步.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 歨.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 歩.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 溡.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瓪.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 篰.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 簼.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荹.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菦.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蔀.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薄.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 部.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 郶.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鈈, 鈽, 钚, 钸.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 陃.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鞭.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 餢.
    • bù rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鮬.
    • bǔ rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 卜.
    • bǔ rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 卟.
    • bǔ rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 哺.
    • bǔ rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 堖.
    • bǔ rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 捕.
    • bǔ rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 擈.
    • bǔ rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 补.
    • bǔ rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 補.
    • bǔ rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 餒.
    • bǔ rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鳪.
    • bǔ rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鵍.
    • bǔ rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埔.
    • bū rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 峬.
    • bū rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 庯.
    • bū rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 惚.
    • bū rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 扑.
    • bū rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 晡.
    • bū rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 誤.
    • bū rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逋.
    • bū rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鈺.
    • bū rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 餔.
    • bū rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鵏.
  • Nga la - Tedim chin - Zou
    • bu n. Nest.
  • Nias
    • bu n. Hair.
    • bu n. Feather.
  • Nias - Pangutaran sama
    • bu n. Fur.
  • Norman
    • bu v. Past participle of baithe.
  • Northern ndebele - Phuthi - Southern ndebele - Swazi - Xhosa - Zulu
    • bu- pref. It; class 14 subject concord.
    • bu- pref. It; class 14 object concord.
  • Norwegian nynorsk
    • bu v. (Intransitive) to live (have permanent residence), stay.
    • bu v. (Intransitive) to be, to dwell, to be in.
    • bu v. (Transitive) to prepare.
    • bu n. An estate, belongings.
    • bu n. Booth, stall, small storage room or building.
    • bu n. (Rare) a shop or a workshop.
    • bu interj. Boo! Used to indicate derision or disapproval.
    • -bu suff. Used to create demonyms denoting people from wherever the first part suggests.
    • -bu suff. (Botany) -oecious Used to form adjectives denoting the arrangement of sexual organs in plants.
  • Old french
    • bu n. Chest; thorax.
  • Old irish
    • bú n. Vocative/accusative plural of bó.
  • Old norse
    • bú n. (Old West Norse) dwelling, household, farm, estate, housekeeping, home.
  • Oroqen
  • Pa
    • bu n. (Woman’s) breast.
  • Pennsylvania german
    • Bu n. Alternative form of Buh.
  • Phuthi - Swazi
    • bu- pref. Class 14 noun prefix.
  • Plautdietsch
    • Bu n. Building, structure, edifice.
  • Pnar
    • bu v. To suck, to suckle.
  • Polish
    • bu interj. An onomatopoeic interjection imitating the sound of crying, usually written with two or more ’u’s.
  • Romagnol
    • bu v. Past participle of avér (“to have”).
  • Romanian
    • bu interj. Sound made by an ox.
    • bu interj. Hoot; sound made by an owl.
  • Rukai
    • bu n. Bow (weapon for shooting arrows).
  • Salar
    • bu n. This.
  • Scottish gaelic
    • bu v. Past/conditional of is.
  • Serbo-croatian
    • bu v. (Kajkavian) third-person singular future of biti.
  • Swedish
    • bu interj. Boo; a loud exclamation intended to scare someone, usually a child.
    • bu interj. Boo; an exclamation used to indicate derision or disapproval of what has just occurred.
  • Uzbek
    • bu pron. This (demonstrative pronoun used to indicate a thing in the immediate vicinity of the speaker).
    • bu det. This.
  • Vietnamese
    • bu n. A cage (often dome-shaped and used for chickens).
    • bu n. (Rare) mom; mother.
    • bu v. (Central Vietnam, southern Vietnam) to assemble, to gather into one place.
    • bú v. To suck (at a breast) to consume milk.
    • bù v. To compensate; to make up.
    • bù n. (North Central Vietnam) Alternative form of bầu.
    • bư adj. Silly, stupid.
    • bự adj. (Of skin on the face, etc.) covered (with something); filled (with); thick (with).
    • bự adj. (Central Vietnam, southern Vietnam) big (in size or importance); great; influential.
    • bụ adj. Plump.
  • Volapük
    • bü prep. Before, ago (bü yels tel = two years ago).
    • bü prep. To, before (when telling time).
  • Wakhi
    • bu num. Two.
  • Welsh
    • bu v. Third-person singular preterite of bod.
  • Westrobothnian
    • bu n. (Childish) ghost; nuisance, harm.
  • Woi
    • bu n. Knee.
  • Zou
    • bu v. (Transitive) to hide.
    • bu n. Cottage, hut.
    • bu n. Cooked rice.
  • Zulu
    • bu- pref. Class 14 simple noun prefix.
— In German —
  • BU Abk. Berufsunfähigkeit.
  • BU Abk. Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung.
  • BU Abk. Bildunterschrift.
— In French —
  • bu adj. Absorbé, en parlant d’un liquide ou de sentiment (les sentiments…
  • bu adj. Ivre.
  • bu n.m. Langue nigéro-congolaise parlée au Cameroun.
  • bu sym. (Métrologie) Symbole du boisseau, unité de mesure de capacité.
  • bu v. Participe passé masculin singulier de boire.
  • BU n.m. (Finance) Brillant universel.
  • BU n.f. (Éducation) Bibliothèque universitaire.
  • Bû n.prop. (Géographie) Commune française, située dans le département…
— In Portuguese —
  • bu interj. Expressa e é proferida com o intuito de causar susto.
284 English words from 164 English definitions

Aardvark Abbreviation accusative address adjectives ago alpha Alternative and arrangement arrows assemble assigned ave back back␣up Baylor before belongings between big Blood bod Boo Booth Boston Botany Bournemouth Bow breast brilliant broken broken␣up Buh building bureau Burma bury bushel butyl bys cage canine ccTLD Central characteristic Chemistry Chest chickens child Childish class Clipping code compensate concord conditional consume Cooked Cooked␣rice Cottage country country␣code covered cow create crying decommissioned demonstrative demonstrative␣pronoun demonyms denoting derision die disapproval Dish Dog dome dry dry␣measure dwell dwelling edifice estate etc exclamation face farm father Feather filled first Food for form Former from Fur future gather general ghost great grief Hair Hanyu Hanyu␣Pinyin harm has have hide home Hoot household housekeeping hut Hyacinth IANA imitating immediate Imperative importance indicate influential informal in␣general Initialism intended interjection International into Intransitive in␣use ISO just Kajkavian Knee live loud madam made make make␣up mam measure milk mom Moo more mother Mrs Mum Myanmar naming Nautical Nest Night Nonstandard Norse North North␣Central not noun nuisance Numismatic object obsolete occurred -oecious of␣a often Old Old␣West Old␣West␣Norse one onomatopoeic on␣the organs owl part participle passive Past Past␣participle people permanent person Pinyin place plants Plump plural prefix prepare preterite pronoun Rare reading referring residence rice Rōmaji room scare scrapping second second␣person Second-person␣singular see sexual shaped she ship shooting shop Silly simple since singular size skin slang Slightly small someone something Sorrow sound southern speaker speakers spelling stall standards stay storage structure stupid subject suck suckle suggests tel telling term term␣of␣address the these thick thing third third␣person third-person␣singular This thorax time title to␣the transcription Transitive two uncirculated unit University use used used␣to usually vicinity Vietnam Vocative Water weapon weight West what when wherever with Woman workshop written years You

14 English words from 12 foreign definitions

Cameroun com Commune dans département Finance Langue les masculin passé sentiment sentiments susto Symbole

3 foreign words from 164 English definitions

afer bue yels

30 foreign words from 12 foreign definitions

Absorbé Berufsunfähigkeit Bibliothèque Bildunterschrift boire boisseau Brillant Brillant␣universel capacité causar congolaise Éducation française Géographie intuito Ivre liquide mesure Métrologie nigéro-congolaise parlant parlée Participe Participe␣passé singulier située unité unité␣de␣mesure universel universitaire

7423 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

Bua bub Bub BUC bud Bud BUD Bue BUF bug Bug Buh Bui BUI buj Buk bum bun Bun BUN bur Bur bur- bus 'bus bus. Bus. but But but- buy buz BUAF BUAG bual Buas buat BUAV buba Bubb Bube Bubi bubo bubs Bubs buck Buck Bucy Buda Budd +7373 words

10444 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Abua abud Abui abun Abun ABUs abut abuy DBUs e-bus IBUs Mbum MBUs OBUA OBUs PBUH tBuO TBUs Ubud abbur Abuan Abuja abuna Abuna abune Abung abuns abura Abure aburn abus'd abuse abuts abutt abuys abuzz album Albus babul babus Babus bob␣up Cebus Cobus Dabul debud debug debus debut début +10394 words

101 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Abu ABU DBU EBU FBU GBU hbu ibu IBU MBU OBU SBU tBu TBU wbu Zbu AIBU Albu babu Babu Cebu dubu Embu fubu GUBU habu Nabu ombu SCBU SSBU Subu tabu Tebu Tibu Tubu Wubu yabu YABU Zabu zebu bambu Isubu jambu JewBu jimbu Kimbu kombu konbu libbu Limbu +51 words

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

UB

99 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Abu ABU AUB bau Bau BAU BDU blu bru Bru BTU Bua bub Bub BUC bud Bud BUD Bue BUF bug Bug Buh Bui BUI buj Buk bum bun Bun BUN bur Bur bur- bus 'bus bus. Bus. but But but- buy buz BYU cub Cub CUB DBU dub Dub DUB Dub. +47 words

177 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

au Au AU a.u. A.U. A.␣U. ba Ba BA b@ ba' -ba- B.A. B.␣A. bb BB B♭ B&B B␣&␣B bc BC b/c B.C. bd Bd BD b/d bd. Bd. B/D B␣&␣D be BE be- B&E B/E B.E. bf BF BF% B.F. bg Bg. BH B"H B&H b***h bi BI bi- bj BJ B.J. bk BK bk. BL B/L bm BM B&M bn Bn BN bn. Bn. B.N. bo Bo BO B.O. bp Bp BP Bp. BQ B.Q. B.␣Q. Br BR Br. bs Bs BS b's B's B&S BS. B+'s B.S. B−'s B.␣S. b******s bt Bt BT BV bw BW b/w (+77 words)

9 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

bau Bau BAU BDU blu bru Bru BTU BYU


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