8-letter words containing b, l, u, n
- fumbling — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
- fundable — Able to be funded; deserving of funds.
- fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- galbanum — a gum resin with a peculiar, strong odor, obtained from certain Asian plants of the genus Ferula, used in incense and formerly in medicine.
- globulin — any of a group of proteins, as myosin, occurring in plant and animal tissue, insoluble in pure water but soluble in dilute salt solutions and coagulable by heat.
- habenula — a narrow bandlike structure, as the stalk attaching the pineal gland to the thalamus.
- humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- huntable — capable of being hunted
- in baulk — inside one of these spaces
- in-built — built-in (def 2).
- istanbul — a port in NW Turkey, on both sides of the Bosporus: built by Constantine I on the site of ancient Byzantium; capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and of the Ottoman Empire; capital removed to Ankara 1923.
- jubilant — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- jubilent — Misspelling of jubilant.
- jumbling — Present participle of jumble.
- kinabalu — a mountain in N Sabah, in Malaysia: highest peak on the island of Borneo. 13,455 feet (4101 meters).
- labdanum — a resinous juice that exudes from various rockroses of the genus Cistus: used in perfumery, fumigating substances, etc.
- laburnum — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lansbury — George. 1859–1940, British Labour politician, who led the Labour Party in opposition (1931–35). A committed pacifist, he resigned over the party's reaction to Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia
- lilburne — John. ?1614-57, English Puritan pamphleteer and leader of the Levellers, a radical group prominent during the Civil War
- lion cub — baby lion
- lubyanka — a prison and secret-police headquarters in central Moscow.
- lunchbox — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- lundberg — George A(ndrew) 1895–1966, U.S. sociologist and author.
- lüneburg — a city in N Germany, in Lower Saxony: capital of the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1235 to 1369; prominent Hanse town; saline springs. Pop: 70 614 (2003 est)
- millburn — a township in NE New Jersey.
- mumbling — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
- nebelung — a breed of cat with a long body, long silky bluish hair, and a plumelike tail
- nebulise — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
- nebulium — a hypothetical element once thought to be present in emission nebulae because of certain unidentified spectral lines, now known to be forbidden transitions of oxygen and nitrogen ions.
- nebulize — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
- nebulose — cloudlike; nebulous.
- nebulous — hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
- nembutal — pentobarbital sodium
- nibelung — any of a race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure captured by Siegfried.
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- nubecula — (astronomy) A nebula; specifically, the Magellanic Clouds.
- nubility — (of a young woman) suitable for marriage, especially in regard to age or physical development; marriageable.
- nubilous — cloudy or foggy.
- nullable — That may be nullified; nullifiable.
- oblongum — (geometry, archaic) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
- olibanum — frankincense.
- outblown — Inflated with wind.
- plumb in — When someone plumbs in a device such as a washing machine, toilet, or bath, they connect it to the water and waste pipes in a building.
- plumbing — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- prunable — Archaic. to preen.
- publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
- purblind — nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
- rubellan — a red-coloured mineral
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- runcible — Early system for mathematics on IBM 650. See also FORTRUNCIBLE, IT.