8-letter words containing a, l, u
- barrulet — a narrow band across a heraldic shield, taking up one twentieth of the shield's height
- bas bleu — a bluestocking; intellectual woman
- bascules — Plural form of bascule.
- bashfull — Archaic form of bashful.
- basileus — A title of the Byzantine emperor.
- basilius — Saint, Basil, Saint.
- basinful — As much as a basin will hold.
- bateleur — a common African eagle, Terathopius ecaudatus, having a very short tail.
- baulking — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- bawl out — If someone bawls you out, they shout at you angrily because you have done something wrong.
- beaulieu — a village in S England, in Hampshire: site of Palace House, seat of Lord Montagu and once the gatehouse of the ruined 13th-century abbey; the National Motor Museum is in its grounds. Pop: 809 (2001)
- belabour — If you belabour someone or something, you hit them hard and repeatedly.
- belamour — a beloved person
- belaunde — Fernando [fer-nahn-daw] /fɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), (Fernando Belaúnde Terry) 1913?–2002, Peruvian architect and statesman: president 1963–68, 1980–85.
- benguela — a port in W Angola: founded in 1617; a terminus (with Lobito) of the railway that runs from Beira in Mozambique through the Copper Belt of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Pop: about 200 000 (1990 est)
- biannual — A biannual event happens twice a year.
- bicaudal — having two tails
- bimanual — using or requiring both hands
- binaural — relating to, having, or hearing with both ears
- biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs
- bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
- blackgum — Nyssa sylvatica, a deciduous tree of the genus Nyssa native to North America
- blackmun — Harry Andrew1908-99; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)
- blackmur — R(ichard) P(almer) 1904–65, U.S. critic and poet.
- blackout — A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
- blagueur — a person who engages in blague
- blameful — deserving blame; guilty
- blanquet — a variety of French pear
- blastula — an early form of an animal embryo that develops from a morula, consisting of a sphere of cells with a central cavity
- bleuatre — blueish
- blu-tack — a type of blue, malleable, sticky material used to attach paper, card, etc to walls and other surfaces
- blue bag — a fabric bag for a barrister's robes
- blue gas — water gas.
- blue jay — a common, crested North American jay (Cyanocitta cristata) with a blue upper body and head
- blue law — any of the strict puritanical laws prevalent in colonial New England
- blueback — any of several species of fish with a blue colouring
- blueball — a European herb
- bluebead — corn lily (def 2).
- bluebeat — a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s; a precursor of reggae
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- bluehead — either of two fish of the wrasse family, Thalassoma amblycephalum or Thalassoma bifasciatum
- bluejack — a species of oak, Quercus incana, the leaves of which have a blue tinge
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- blumenau — a city in Santa Catarina state, S Brazil.
- 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.
- boulimia — bulimia.
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- bubaline — (of antelopes) relating to or resembling the bubal