8-letter words containing b, o, u, r
- faubourg — a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.
- fiberous — Misspelling of fibrous.
- four-bit — 50 cents.
- fourball — a match for two pairs in which each player uses his own ball, the better score of each pair being counted at every hole
- frabjous — wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.
- fribourg — a canton in W Switzerland. 644 sq. mi. (1668 sq. km).
- 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.
- furbelow — a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.
- gaboriau — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1835–73, French author of detective stories.
- glabrous — having a surface devoid of hair or pubescence.
- globular — globe-shaped; spherical.
- grub hoe — a heavy hoe for digging up roots, stumps, etc.
- grubworm — grub (def 1).
- harbours — Plural form of harbour.
- harunobu — Suzuki [soo-zoo-kee] /sʊˈzu ki/ (Show IPA), 1720?–70, Japanese painter and printmaker.
- homburgs — Plural form of homburg.
- huidobro — Vicente [bee-sen-te] /biˈsɛn tɛ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1948, Chilean poet.
- jury box — courtroom: area where jury sits
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- keurboom — (South Africa) A species of tree, Virgilia oroboides, noted for it's pretty lilac flowers.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- laborous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- laboured — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- labourer — Standard spelling of laborer.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- marabous — Plural form of marabou.
- marabout — Islam. a hermit or holy man, especially in N Africa, often wielding political power and credited with supernatural powers. the tomb or shrine of such a man.
- microbus — minibus.
- mob rule — the fact or state of large groups of people acting without the consent of the government, authorities, etc
- 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.
- motorbus — a passenger bus powered by a motor.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- nonurban — Not urban.
- northumb — Northumberland
- nubiform — cloud-like
- nutbrown — dark brown, as many nuts when ripe.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- obdurate — unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- obscured — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obscurer — Comparative form of obscure.
- obscures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obscure.
- obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- obtruded — Simple past tense and past participle of obtrude.
- obtruder — One who obtrudes.
- obtrudes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obtrude.
- obturate — to stop up; close.
- orenburg — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.