8-letter words containing a, u
- bull bar — On some motor vehicles, bull bars are metal bars fixed to the front that are designed to protect it if it crashes.
- bull bay — evergreen magnolia.
- bull-bar — a metal frame attached to the front of a vehicle to prevent damage in case of a collision with stray animals on outback roads.
- bullbars — large protective metal grille on the front of some vehicles, esp four-wheel-drive vehicles
- bullboat — a lightweight, shallow-draft boat made of hides stretched over a wooden frame and used by Plains Indians.
- bullhead — any of various small northern mainly marine scorpaenoid fishes of the family Cottidae that have a large head covered with bony plates and spines
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- bultmann — Rudolf Karl. 1884–1976, German theologian, noted for his demythologizing approach to the New Testament
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- burletta — a type of comic opera
- burn bag — a special bag into which discarded secret or sensitive documents are placed for burning.
- burnable — able to be burned
- 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
- but that — about the fact that
- butanone — a colourless soluble flammable liquid used mainly as a solvent for resins, as a paint remover, and in lacquers, cements, and adhesives. Formula: CH3COC2H5
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- butt bra — an undergarment for supporting the buttocks
- butthead — a stupid person
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- buy boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
- buy-back — A buy-back is a situation in which a company buys shares back from its investors.
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- buzz saw — a power-operated circular saw
- buzz-saw — a power-operated circular saw, so named because of the noise it makes.
- buzzbait — a fishing lure with small blades that stir the water
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- cachucha — a graceful Spanish solo dance in triple time
- caciques — Plural form of cacique.
- cactuses — Plural form of cactus.