8-letter words containing b, u, o
- brochure — A brochure is a magazine or thin book with pictures that gives you information about a product or service.
- broguery — the use of a brogue or accent
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- brougham — a four-wheeled horse-drawn closed carriage having a raised open driver's seat in front
- brouhaha — A brouhaha is an excited and critical fuss or reaction to something.
- brownout — a dimming or reduction in the use of electric lights in a city, esp to conserve electric power or as a defensive precaution in wartime
- brush-on — fit to be applied with a brush: a brush-on paint remover.
- brushoff — an abrupt or rude dismissal, esp. in the phrase give (or get) the brushoff
- bucchero — an Etruscan black ceramic ware, often ornamented with incised geometrical patterns or figures carved in relief.
- buck for — If you are bucking for something, you are working very hard to get it.
- buckaroo — a cowboy
- buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bucovina — Bukovina
- budgerow — a large slow-moving barge formerly used on the Ganges
- buff top — a very low, almost flat, cabochon cut.
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- bughouse — a mental hospital or asylum
- build on — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- bukovina — a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of Ukraine; the south remained Romanian
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- bulgakov — Mikhail Afanaseyev (ʌfʌˈnasjef). 1891–1940, Soviet novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer; his novels include The Master and Margerita (1966–67)
- bullboat — a lightweight, shallow-draft boat made of hides stretched over a wooden frame and used by Plains Indians.
- bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
- bullfrog — A bullfrog is a type of large frog which makes a very loud noise.
- bullhorn — A bullhorn is a device for making your voice sound louder in the open air.
- bullnose — a rounded exterior angle, as where two walls meet
- bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
- bullpout — a type of fish
- bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
- bullyboy — a ruffian or tough, esp a hired one
- bump off — To bump someone off means to kill them.
- bun foot — a foot having the form of a slightly flattened ball.
- buncombe — bunkum
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bunghole — a hole in a cask, barrel, etc, through which liquid can be poured or drained
- bunk off — If you bunk off from school or work, you leave without permission and do something else.
- bunkroom — temporary sleeping quarters, especially for travelers.
- bunodont — (of the teeth of certain mammals) having cusps that are separate and rounded
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- burdizzo — a surgical instrument used to castrate animals
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- burlwood — wood taken or cut from a burl.
- burn off — If someone burns off energy, they use it.