| blockbuster | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: megahit, smash hit |
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| (noun) a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block) | - |
| broncobuster | (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, buster |
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| bust | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bout, tear |
| (noun) a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person | - |
| (noun) the chest of a woman | Synonyms: female chest |
| (noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: fizzle, flop |
| (verb) break open or apart suddenly and forcefully | Synonyms: burst |
| (verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: break, fall apart, wear, wear out |
| (verb) ruin completely | Synonyms: break |
| (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: rupture, snap, tear |
| (verb) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on | Synonyms: raid |
| bustard | (noun) large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes | - |
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| busted | (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: broken |
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| buster | (noun) a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something | - |
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| (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, broncobuster |
| (noun) a robust child | - |
| (noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: dude, fellow |
| (noun) a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically | Synonyms: baby buster |
| bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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| bustle | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, flurry, fuss, hustle, stir |
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| (noun) a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt | - |
| (verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily | Synonyms: bustle about, hustle |
| bustling | (adjective) full of energetic and noisy activity | - |
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| busty | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| combust | (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) get very angry and fly into a rage | Synonyms: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit |
| (verb) cause to become violent or angry | - |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: burn |
| combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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| combustible | (adjective) capable of igniting and burning | - |
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| (noun) a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power | Synonyms: combustible material |
| combustibleness | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibility |
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| combustion | (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: burning |
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| (noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: burning |
| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and excitement | - |
| combustive | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, comburent |
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| filibuster | (noun) (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches | - |
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| (noun) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes | Synonyms: filibusterer |
| (verb) obstruct deliberately by delaying | - |
| filibusterer | (noun) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes | Synonyms: filibuster |
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| incombustible | (adjective) not capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: noncombustible |
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| noncombustible | (adjective) not capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: incombustible |
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| robust | (adjective) sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction | - |
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| (adjective) strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity | - |
| (adjective) marked by richness and fullness of flavor | Synonyms: full-bodied, racy, rich |
| (adjective) rough and crude | - |
| robustious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, rambunctious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| robustly | (adverb) in a robust manner | - |
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| robustness | (noun) the property of being strong and healthy in constitution | Synonyms: hardiness, lustiness |
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| (noun) the characteristic of being strong enough to withstand intellectual challenge | - |
| rumbustious | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, unruly |
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| sodbuster | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, granger, husbandman |
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| trustbuster | (noun) a federal agent who engages in trust busting | - |
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