8-letter words containing b, o, u, s
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bughouse — a mental hospital or asylum
- bullnose — a rounded exterior angle, as where two walls meet
- bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- 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.
- bus stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.
- bush lot — a tract of timberland
- bush-hog — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bust out — escape from somewhere
- busybody — If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs.
- busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
- chibouks — Plural form of chibouk.
- chubasco — (in Mexico) a hurricane
- clubmoss — Alternative spelling of club moss.
- cobhouse — A structure built of cob.
- columbus — a city in central Ohio: the state capital. Pop: 728 432 (2003 est)
- cottabus — (in ancient Greece) a game that was popular among young men at drinking parties and which involved throwing wine into a vessel while uttering the name of a beloved
- coulombs — Plural form of coulomb.
- cumbrous — cumbersome
- disbound — (of a book) having the binding torn or loose.
- doublers — Plural form of doubler.
- doublets — Plural form of doublet.
- doubters — Plural form of doubter.
- dumbshow — Gestures used to convey a meaning or message without speech; mime.
- dustbowl — An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.
- fabulous — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- fiberous — Misspelling of fibrous.
- frabjous — wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.
- fuse box — with circuit breakers
- glabrous — having a surface devoid of hair or pubescence.
- globules — Plural form of globule.
- globulus — The nucleus globosus.
- goldbugs — Informal. a person, especially an economist or politician, who supports the gold standard.
- gumboils — Plural form of gumboil.
- gumboots — a rubber boot.
- gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
- harbours — Plural form of harbour.
- hautbois — hautboy.
- hautboys — Plural form of hautboy.
- homburgs — Plural form of homburg.