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8-letter words containing b, o, u, n

  • bunodont — (of the teeth of certain mammals) having cusps that are separate and rounded
  • bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
  • 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.
  • burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
  • burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
  • burleson — a city in N Texas.
  • burn off — If someone burns off energy, they use it.
  • burn out — If a fire burns itself out, it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn.
  • burnoose — a long cloak with a hood, worn by Arabs and Moors
  • bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
  • burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
  • 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
  • buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
  • buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
  • can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
  • casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
  • conurban — of or relating to a conurbation
  • conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
  • cui bono — for whose benefit? for what purpose?
  • dan buoy — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
  • debounce — To remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.
  • disbound — (of a book) having the binding torn or loose.
  • doubling — anything that is twofold in size or amount or twice the usual size, quantity, strength, etc.
  • doubloon — a former gold coin of Spain and Spanish America, originally equal to two escudos but fluctuating in value.
  • doubting — Present participle of doubt.
  • dubonnet — (lowercase) a deep purple-red color.
  • eurobond — Eurobonds are bonds which are issued in a particular European currency and sold to people from a country with a different currency.
  • fogbound — unable to sail or navigate because of heavy fog.
  • funboard — (surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
  • 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.
  • guaynabo — a city in N Puerto Rico, SE of Bayamón.
  • gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
  • harunobu — Suzuki [soo-zoo-kee] /sʊˈzu ki/ (Show IPA), 1720?–70, Japanese painter and printmaker.
  • honeybun — A type of bun or pastry sweetened with honey.
  • hunt box — a hunting lodge or house near or in a hunting area for use during the hunting season.
  • icebound — held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship.
  • in doubt — uncertain
  • inbounds — Sports. being within the boundaries of a court or field.
  • incubous — (of leaves) overlapping, with the upper part of each leaf covering the base of the leaf above it.
  • job hunt — search for employment
  • job-hunt — to seek employment; look for a job.
  • lion cub — baby lion
  • lunchbox — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
  • mawbound — (of cattle) constipated
  • monobuoy — a floating platform anchored offshore in deep water and equipped with pipelines leading to storage tanks onshore, to which large, deep-draft tankers moor to load or unload.
  • moorburn — the practice of burning off old growth on a heather moor to encourage new growth for grazing
  • moribund — in a dying state; near death.
  • mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
  • nanotube — A cylindrical molecule of a fullerene.
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