8-letter words containing b, u, r, i
- grubbies — a small sculpin, Myxocephalus aenaeus, inhabiting waters off the coast of New England.
- grubbily — In a grubby manner.
- grubbing — Present participle of grub.
- gun brig — a naval brig of the 18th century having from 8 to 12 guns.
- huidobro — Vicente [bee-sen-te] /biˈsɛn tɛ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1948, Chilean poet.
- imbruing — Present participle of imbrue.
- imbursed — Simple past tense and past participle of imburse.
- incumber — encumber.
- inurbane — not urbane; lacking in courtesy, refinement, etc.
- iturbide — Agustín de [ah-goos-teen de] /ˌɑ gusˈtin dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1783–1824, Mexican soldier and revolutionary: as Agustín I, emperor of Mexico 1822–23.
- liberius — died a.d. 366, pope 352–366.
- lilburne — John. ?1614-57, English Puritan pamphleteer and leader of the Levellers, a radical group prominent during the Civil War
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- lubrical — Obsolete form of lubric.
- microbus — minibus.
- millburn — a township in NE New Jersey.
- millbury — a city in central Massachusetts.
- mirabeau — Honoré Gabriel Victor Riqueti [aw-naw-rey ga-bree-el veek-tawr reekuh-tee] /ɔ nɔˈreɪ ga briˈɛl vikˈtɔr rikəˈti/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1749–91, French Revolutionary statesman and orator.
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- mudbrick — A brick made from mud or clay mixed with straw and dried in the sun rather than being fired.
- nubiform — cloud-like
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- outbribe — to bribe more than
- prebuild — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- prebuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- prepubis — (in some animals) a bone situated in front of the pubis
- puffbird — any of several tropical American birds of the family Bucconidae, related to the barbets, having a large head with the feathers often fluffed out.
- purblind — nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
- quibbler — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
- quiberon — a peninsula in NW France, on the S coast of Brittany: British naval victory over the French 1759. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- radium b — an isotope of lead, formed by decay of radium A, that gives rise to radium C, which is an isotope of bismuth, from which radium D, radium E, and radium F, or polonium 210, are derived.
- reburial — the act of burying (something, esp a dead body) in the ground again
- republic — a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
- resubmit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- roburite — a flameless safety explosive used in mines
- rubaiyat — (in Persian poetry) a verse form consisting of four-line stanzas
- rubbishy — full of rubbish: a rubbishy cellar.
- rubicund — red or reddish; ruddy: a rubicund complexion.
- rubidium — a silver-white, metallic, active element resembling potassium, used in photoelectric cells and radio vacuum tubes. Symbol: Rb; atomic weight: 85.47; atomic number: 37; specific gravity: 1.53 at 20°C.
- rubrical — reddish; marked with red.
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- runcible — Early system for mathematics on IBM 650. See also FORTRUNCIBLE, IT.
- simsbury — a town in central Connecticut.
- sirius b — a very faint white dwarf star, companion to Sirius, the brightest star in the sky after the sun
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- suberize — to convert into cork tissue.
- subprime — being of less than top quality: a subprime grade of steel.
- subprior — a monk junior to a prior
- subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.