| bus | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| (noun) a car that is old and unreliable | Synonyms: heap, jalopy |
| (noun) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits | Synonyms: busbar |
| (noun) the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar | Synonyms: bus topology |
| (verb) remove used dishes from the table in restaurants | - |
| (verb) ride in a bus | - |
| (verb) send or move around by bus | - |
| busbar | (noun) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits | Synonyms: bus |
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| busboy | (noun) a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes | Synonyms: waiter's assistant |
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| busby | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: bearskin, shako |
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| bush | (adjective) not of the highest quality or sophistication | Synonyms: bush-league |
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| (noun) hair growing in the pubic area | Synonyms: crotch hair, pubic hair |
| (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: chaparral, scrub |
| (noun) a large wilderness area | - |
| (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Synonyms: shrub |
| (verb) provide with a bushing | - |
| bushbaby | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, galago |
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| bushbuck | (noun) antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns | Synonyms: guib, Tragelaphus scriptus |
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| bushed | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, dead |
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| bushel | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks | - |
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| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches | - |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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| (noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
| bushman | (noun) a dweller in the Australian bush country | - |
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| bushtit | (noun) active grey titmice of western North America | Synonyms: bush tit |
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| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
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| (noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| bushy | (adjective) resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading | - |
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| (adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired, shaggy |
| busily | (adverb) in a busy manner | - |
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| business | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: job, line, line of work, occupation |
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| (noun) the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects | Synonyms: business enterprise, commercial enterprise |
| (noun) the volume of commercial activity | - |
| (noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: byplay, stage business |
| (noun) an immediate objective | - |
| (noun) a rightful concern or responsibility | - |
| (noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern |
| (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: clientele, patronage |
| (noun) business concerns collectively | Synonyms: business sector |
| businesslike | (adjective) exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business | - |
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| (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: earnest |
| businessman | (noun) a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | Synonyms: man of affairs |
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| businessmen | (noun) the body of individuals who manage businesses | Synonyms: business community |
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| businesspeople | (noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) | Synonyms: business people |
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| businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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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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| busload | (noun) the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry | - |
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| busman | (noun) someone who drives a bus | Synonyms: bus driver |
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| buspirone | (noun) a drug (trade name BuSpar) designed specifically for anxiety | Synonyms: BuSpar |
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| buss | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: kiss, osculation |
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| (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: kiss, osculate, snog |
| 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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| busy | (adjective) actively or fully engaged or occupied | - |
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| (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: fussy |
| (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
| (adjective) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) | Synonyms: engaged, in use |
| (adjective) crowded with or characterized by much activity | - |
| (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: occupy |
| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| busybody | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: nosey-parker, nosy-parker, quidnunc |
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| busyness | (noun) the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity | Synonyms: hum |
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| busywork | (noun) active work of little value | Synonyms: make-work |
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