8-letter words containing b, u, o
- burn out — If a fire burns itself out, it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn.
- burnoose — a long cloak with a hood, worn by Arabs and Moors
- burrowed — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- 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.
- butanone — a colourless soluble flammable liquid used mainly as a solvent for resins, as a paint remover, and in lacquers, cements, and adhesives. Formula: CH3COC2H5
- butt out — If someone tells you to butt out, they are telling you rudely to go away or not to interfere with what they are doing.
- butthole — anus.
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
- buy boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
- 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-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- buzz off — If someone buzzes off, they go away. People sometimes say buzz off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
- buzzword — A buzzword is a word or expression that has become fashionable in a particular field and is being used a lot by the media.
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- 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
- ciborium — a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
- clubfoot — If someone has a clubfoot, they are born with a badly twisted foot.
- clubmoss — Alternative spelling of club moss.
- clubroom — a room used by a club for meetings, activities, socializing, etc
- clubroot — a disease of cabbages and related plants, caused by the fungus Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which the roots become thickened and distorted
- cobhouse — A structure built of cob.
- 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.
- columbus — a city in central Ohio: the state capital. Pop: 728 432 (2003 est)
- comb out — to remove (tangles or knots) from (the hair) with a comb
- comb-out — a thorough combing or brushing of the hair.
- conurban — of or relating to a conurbation
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- 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
- could be — It's possible
- coulombs — Plural form of coulomb.
- cubiform — having the shape of a cube
- cuboidal — Also, cuboidal. resembling a cube in form.
- cui bono — for whose benefit? for what purpose?
- cumbrous — cumbersome
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.