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8-letter words containing a, b, u, s

  • barbules — Plural form of barbule.
  • barbusse — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1873–1935, French novelist and poet. His novels include L'Enfer (1908) and Le Feu (1916), reflecting the horror of World War I
  • baroques — (often initial capital letter) of or relating to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century and variously prevalent in Europe and the New World for a century and a half, characterized by free and sculptural use of the classical orders and ornament, by forms in elevation and plan suggesting movement, and by dramatic effect in which architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts often worked to combined effect.
  • barosaur — a large herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck and tail, similar to the diplodocus
  • bas bleu — a bluestocking; intellectual woman
  • bascules — Plural form of bascule.
  • bash out — If you say that someone bashes something out, you mean that they produce it quickly or in large quantities, but without much care or thought.
  • bashfull — Archaic form of bashful.
  • basidium — the structure, produced by basidiomycetous fungi after sexual reproduction, in which spores are formed at the tips of projecting slender stalks
  • basileus — A title of the Byzantine emperor.
  • basilius — Saint, Basil, Saint.
  • basinful — As much as a basin will hold.
  • basquine — a tight-fitting bodice worn by women in the Basque region and in Spain
  • bathtubs — Plural form of bathtub.
  • bathurst — a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)
  • baudrons — a cat
  • beauties — the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).
  • beauvais — a market town in N France, 64 km (40 miles) northwest of Paris. Pop: 55 392 (1999)
  • bermudas — a group of islands in the Atlantic, 580 miles (935 km) E of North Carolina: a British colony; resort. 19 sq. mi. (49 sq. km). Capital: Hamilton.
  • bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
  • bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
  • biparous — producing offspring in pairs
  • biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
  • bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
  • blastula — an early form of an animal embryo that develops from a morula, consisting of a sphere of cells with a central cavity
  • blue gas — water gas.
  • bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
  • boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
  • bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
  • branchus — a son of Apollo, given the power of augury by his father.
  • brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
  • briareus — a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
  • bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
  • buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
  • buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
  • bud vase — a relatively tall, slender vase, usually footed, for holding a single, stemmed flower, usually a rosebud
  • budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
  • bullbars — large protective metal grille on the front of some vehicles, esp four-wheel-drive vehicles
  • burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
  • bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
  • bus pass — a prepaid card allowing one to use buses
  • bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
  • bushbaby — any agile nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate of the genera Galago and Euoticus, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara: family Lorisidae (lorises). They have large eyes and ears and a long tail
  • bushgoat — a S African antelope
  • bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
  • bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
  • bushwalk — to hike through bushland
  • bust ass — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
  • busulfan — a drug used to treat cancer
  • butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
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