8-letter words containing b, u, n, t
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- runabout — a small, light automobile or other vehicle, usually with an open top; roadster.
- stubborn — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- sub-note — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.
- subentry — an item shown or listed under a main entry, as in bookkeeping.
- subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- subtaxon — a supplementary piece of identifying information in a plant's or animal's scientific name
- subtense — a line that subtends
- subtilin — an antibiotic peptide drug derived from Bacillus subtilis, predominantly used to combat various pathogenic fungi as well as Gram-positive bacteria
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- subtrend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- subtunic — a garment worn under a tunic
- sun bath — deliberate exposure of the body to the direct rays of the sun or a sunlamp.
- sun belt — the southern and southwestern region of the U.S.
- sunbathe — to take a sunbath.
- sunburnt — inflammation of the skin caused by overexposure to the sun or a sunlamp.
- sunburst — a burst of sunlight; a sudden shining of the sun through rifted clouds.
- t number — one of a series of calibrations of lens openings according to the intensity of the light actually transmitted by the lens. Symbol: T.
- t-number — one of a series of calibrations of lens openings according to the intensity of the light actually transmitted by the lens. Symbol: T.
- tablinum — (in an ancient Roman house) a large, open room at the side of the peristyle farthest from the main entrance.
- thonburi — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thumbing — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbkin — thumbscrew (def 2).
- thumbnut — wing nut.
- titubant — staggering
- tribunal — a court of justice.
- trueborn — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- tube pan — a circular cake pan having a hollow cone-shaped centerpiece: used for baking ring-shaped cakes.
- tubenose — tubesnout.
- tubingen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, SW Germany, between the Neckar and Ammer rivers: university.
- tumbling — an act of tumbling or falling.
- tunbelly — a large round belly
- turbaned — a man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.
- turbinal — turbinate.
- turbined — having or passing through a turbine or turbines
- turbofan — a jet engine having a large impeller that takes in air, part of which is used in combustion of fuel, the remainder being mixed with the products of combustion to form a low-velocity exhaust jet.
- turnable — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turnback — a part of a garment or similar item that is folded or turned back
- turnbull — Malcolm Bligh. born 1954, Australian Liberal politician; prime minister from 2015
- twin-tub — a type of washing machine that has two revolving drums, one for washing and the other for spin-drying
- ubi sunt — a poetic motif emphasizing the transitory nature of youth, life, and beauty, found especially in medieval Latin poems.
- umbonate — having an umbo or projecting boss.
- unabated — with undiminished force, power, or vigor.
- unbaited — (of a trap) not baited or filled with bait
- unbasted — (of a garment) not basted; not sewn loosely together
- unbathed — not bathed; unwashed
- unbeaten — not struck, pounded, or whipped: unbeaten eggs.
- unbelted — to remove the belt from.
- unbereft — not bereft, deprived of, or taken from