8-letter words containing b, a, u, e
- blameful — deserving blame; guilty
- blanquet — a variety of French pear
- bleuatre — blueish
- 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.
- bordeaux — a port in SW France, on the River Garonne: a major centre of the wine trade. Pop: 235 878 (2006)
- brace up — to call forth one's courage, resolution, etc., as after defeat or disappointment
- braeburn — a variety of eating apple from New Zealand having sweet flesh and green and red skin
- braunite — a brown or black mineral that consists of manganese oxide and silicate and is a source of manganese. Formula: 3Mn2O3.MnSiO3
- breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
- briareus — a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- bubaline — (of antelopes) relating to or resembling the bubal
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- buckbean — a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae
- buckrake — a large rake for agricultural use, often attached to a tractor
- 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)
- buddleia — any ornamental shrub of the genus Buddleia, esp B. davidii, which has long spikes of mauve flowers and is frequently visited by butterflies: family Buddleiaceae
- buffable — able to be buffed
- bulkhead — A bulkhead is a wall which divides the inside of a ship or aeroplane into separate sections.
- 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
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- burletta — a type of comic opera
- burnable — able to be burned
- bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
- bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- 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
- butthead — a stupid person
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum