| brusk | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusque, curt, short |
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| busk | (verb) play music in a public place and solicit money for it | - |
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| busker | (noun) a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money | - |
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| buskin | (noun) a boot reaching halfway up to the knee | Synonyms: combat boot, desert boot, half boot, top boot |
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| cornhusk | (noun) the husk of an ear of corn | - |
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| cornhusker | (noun) a worker who husks corn | - |
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| cornhusking | (noun) the act of removing the husks from ears of corn | - |
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| (noun) a social gathering for the purpose of husking corn | Synonyms: husking bee |
| cusk | (noun) large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod | Synonyms: Brosme brosme, torsk |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
| (noun) the lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters | - |
| detusk | (verb) remove the tusks of animals | Synonyms: tusk |
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| dusk | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| (verb) become dusk | - |
| duskiness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: darkness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) the state of being poorly illuminated | Synonyms: dimness |
| dusky | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, swart, swarthy |
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| (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: twilight, twilit |
| husk | (noun) outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
| (verb) remove the husks from | Synonyms: shell |
| huskily | (adverb) in a hoarse or husky voice | Synonyms: hoarsely |
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| huskiness | (noun) the property of being big and strong | Synonyms: ruggedness, toughness |
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| (noun) a throaty harshness | Synonyms: gruffness, hoarseness |
| husking | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, stripping, uncovering |
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| husky | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: gruff, hoarse |
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| (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, strapping |
| (noun) breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog | Synonyms: Eskimo dog |
| mollusk | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, shellfish |
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| musk | (noun) the scent of a greasy glandular secretion from the male musk deer | - |
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| (noun) an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative | - |
| muskat | (noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muscat |
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| muskellunge | (noun) large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America | Synonyms: Esox masquinongy |
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| (noun) flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish | - |
| musket | (noun) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen | - |
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| musketeer | (noun) a foot soldier armed with a musket | - |
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| musketry | (noun) the technique of using small arms (especially in battle) | - |
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| (noun) musketeers and their muskets collectively | - |
| muskiness | (noun) having the olfactory properties of musk | - |
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| muskmelon | (noun) the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers | Synonyms: sweet melon |
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| (noun) any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell | Synonyms: Cucumis melo, sweet melon, sweet melon vine |
| muskrat | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: musquash, Ondatra zibethica |
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| (noun) the brown fur of a muskrat | Synonyms: muskrat fur |
| muskwood | (noun) musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads | Synonyms: Olearia argophylla |
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| musky | (adjective) resembling the smell of musk | - |
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| rusk | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread, zwieback |
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| tusk | (noun) a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog | - |
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| (noun) a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses | Synonyms: ivory |
| (verb) remove the tusks of animals | Synonyms: detusk |
| (verb) stab or pierce with a horn or tusk | Synonyms: horn |
| tusked | (adjective) having tusks | - |
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| tusker | (noun) any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar) | - |
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