8-letter words containing b, u, e, n
- debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- debutant — a person who is making a first appearance in a particular capacity, such as a sportsperson playing in a first game for a team
- debuting — a first public appearance on a stage, on television, etc.
- dreibund — a triple alliance, esp that formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy (1882–1915)
- dubliner — Ireland; magazine
- dubonnet — (lowercase) a deep purple-red color.
- dumbness — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
- dunkable — (informal) Suitable for dunking (as of food).
- dushanbe — a republic in central Asia, N of Afghanistan. 55,240 sq. mi. (143,600 sq. km). Capital: Dushanbe.
- e number — E numbers are artificial substances which are added to some foods and drinks to improve their flavour or colour or to make them last longer. They are called E numbers because they are represented in Europe by code names which begin with the letter 'E'.
- eburnean — Made of ivory.
- eburnine — (rare) Like ivory.
- edinburg — a city in S Texas.
- encumber — Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
- eurobond — Eurobonds are bonds which are issued in a particular European currency and sold to people from a country with a different currency.
- excubant — keeping watch; on guard
- f-number — a number corresponding to the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a lens system, especially a camera lens. In f /1.4, 1.4 is the f-number and signifies that the focal length of the lens is 1.4 times as great as the diameter. /, f/, f, f: Abbreviation: f.
- faburden — an early system of musical harmonization
- 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.
- greenbug — a pale-green aphid, Schizaphis graminum, of North America, destructive of wheat, other small grains, and alfalfa.
- habenula — a narrow bandlike structure, as the stalk attaching the pineal gland to the thalamus.
- honeybun — A type of bun or pastry sweetened with honey.
- huntable — capable of being hunted
- icebound — held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship.
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- incumber — encumber.
- intubate — to insert a tube into (the larynx or the like).
- inurbane — not urbane; lacking in courtesy, refinement, etc.
- jubilent — Misspelling of jubilant.
- june bug — Also called May beetle. any of several large, brown beetles of the genus Phyllophaga, of the scarab family, appearing in late spring and early summer.
- lilburne — John. ?1614-57, English Puritan pamphleteer and leader of the Levellers, a radical group prominent during the Civil War
- 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)
- mangbetu — a member of a people of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- menu bar — a horizontal menu displayed at the top of a computer screen or window, listing available menus for an application, as File, Edit, and View.
- misbegun — Begun badly or incorrectly.
- nanotube — A cylindrical molecule of a fullerene.
- 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
- nembutsu — meditation on the name of Amida.
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- nibelung — any of a race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure captured by Siegfried.
- nimbuses — Plural form of nimbus.
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.