8-letter words containing b, u, i
- 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 time — gain time (sense 2) (at , time)
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- buzzbait — a fishing lure with small blades that stir the water
- buzzkill — someone or something that stops people from enjoying themselves
- cambiums — Plural form of cambium.
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- cherubic — If someone looks cherubic, they look sweet and innocent like a cherub.
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- cherubin — Obsolete form of cherub.
- chibouks — Plural form of chibouk.
- chubbier — Comparative form of chubby.
- chubbies — Plural form of chubby.
- chubbily — in a chubby way or in the manner of someone who is chubby
- cibarium — Entomology. a food pouch in front of the mouth in certain insects.
- ciborium — a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
- clubbing — Clubbing is the activity of going to night clubs.
- clubbish — clubby
- clubbism — the system of club membership
- clubbist — a member of a club
- colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
- columbia — a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- columbic — niobic.
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- crucible — A crucible is a pot in which metals or other substances can be melted or heated up to very high temperatures.
- crumbing — Present participle of crumb.
- cubicity — the state or quality of being cubic
- cubicles — A small partitioned-off area of a room, for example one containing a bed in a dwelling or one containing a desk in an office.
- cubicula — a burial chamber, as in catacombs.
- cubiform — having the shape of a cube
- cubistic — a style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.
- cuboidal — Also, cuboidal. resembling a cube in form.
- cucurbit — any creeping flowering plant of the mainly tropical and subtropical family Cucurbitaceae, which includes the pumpkin, cucumber, squashes, and gourds
- cui bono — for whose benefit? for what purpose?
- cumbrian — of or relating to Cumbria or its inhabitants
- cumbungi — any of various tall Australian marsh plants of the genus Typha
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- curitiba — a city in SE Brazil, capital of Paraná state: seat of the University of Paraná (1946). Pop: 2 871 000 (2005 est)
- daibutsu — a large representation of the Buddha.
- danubian — of or relating to the river Danube
- daubigny — Charles François (ʃarl frɑ̃swa). 1817–78, French landscape painter associated with the Barbizon School
- debruise — to overlay or partly cover with an ordinary
- debuting — a first public appearance on a stage, on television, etc.
- dibelius — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), 1883–1947, German theologian.
- dim bulb — a stupid person; dimwit.
- disabuse — to free (a person) from deception or error.
- disbound — (of a book) having the binding torn or loose.
- disburse — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- disturbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disturb.
- djibouti — Formerly French Somaliland, French Territory of the Afars and Issas. a republic in E Africa, on the Gulf of Aden: a former overseas territory of France; gained independence 1977. 8492 sq. mi. (21,994 sq. km). Capital: Djibouti.