8-letter words containing b, u, r
- 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
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- bruckner — Anton (ˈantoːn). 1824–96, Austrian composer and organist in the Romantic tradition. His works include nine symphonies, four masses, and a Te Deum
- brueghel — Jan (jɑn). 1568–1625, Flemish painter, noted for his detailed still lifes and landscapes
- brugmann — (Friedrich) Karl [free-drik kahrl;; German free-drikh kahrl] /ˈfri drɪk kɑrl;; German ˈfri drɪx kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1849–1919, German philologist.
- bruising — If someone has bruising on their body, they have bruises on it.
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- brummell — George Bryan, called Beau Brummell. 1778–1840, English dandy: leader of fashion in the Regency period
- bruncher — a person who eats brunch
- brunette — A brunette is a white-skinned woman or girl with dark brown hair.
- brunhild — (in the Nibelungenlied) a legendary queen won for King Gunther by the magic of Siegfried: corresponds to Brynhild in Norse mythology
- brunizem — a type of dark prairie soil
- brush up — If you brush up something or brush up on it, you practise it or improve your knowledge of it.
- brush-on — fit to be applied with a brush: a brush-on paint remover.
- brushier — covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood.
- brushoff — an abrupt or rude dismissal, esp. in the phrase give (or get) the brushoff
- brussels — the capital of Belgium, in the central part: became capital of Belgium in 1830; seat of the European Commission. Pop: 999 899 (2004 est)
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- bubblier — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- 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
- buckrake — a large rake for agricultural use, often attached to a tractor
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- budgeree — excellent; fine
- budgerow — a large slow-moving barge formerly used on the Ganges
- budgeter — a person who budgets
- buffered — an apparatus at the end of a railroad car, railroad track, etc., for absorbing shock during coupling, collisions, etc.
- buggered — If someone says that they will be buggered if they will do something, they mean that they do not want to do it and they will definitely not do it.
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- bulgaria — a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula on the Black Sea: under Turkish rule from 1395 until 1878; became an independent kingdom in 1908 and a republic in 1946; joined the EU in 2007; consists chiefly of the Danube valley in the north and the Balkan Mountains in the central part, separated from the Rhodope Mountains of the south by the valley of the Maritsa River. Language: Bulgarian. Religion: Christian (Bulgarian Orthodox) majority. Currency: lev. Capital: Sofia. Pop: 6 981 642 (2013 est). Area: 110 911 sq km (42 823 sq miles)
- bull bar — On some motor vehicles, bull bars are metal bars fixed to the front that are designed to protect it if it crashes.
- bull run — small stream in NE Va.: site of two Civil War battles (1861 & 1862) in which Union forces were defeated
- bull-bar — a metal frame attached to the front of a vehicle to prevent damage in case of a collision with stray animals on outback roads.
- bullbars — large protective metal grille on the front of some vehicles, esp four-wheel-drive vehicles
- 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.
- bullring — A bullring is a circular area of ground surrounded by rows of seats where bullfights take place.
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- bulrushy — made of or resembling bulrushes
- bum-rush — to force one's way into; crash: to bum-rush a rap concert.
- bumblers — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks