8-letter words containing b, u, s, t
- bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
- bush tit — any of several North American titmice of the genus Psaltriparus, which construct long, pendent nests.
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- bust ass — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
- bust out — escape from somewhere
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- butchest — butch haircut.
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
- by turns — You can use by turns to indicate that someone has two particular emotions or qualities, one after the other.
- chubster — An overweight person.
- clubbist — a member of a club
- 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
- cubistic — a style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.
- cutbacks — Plural form of cutback.
- daibutsu — a large representation of the Buddha.
- data bus — (architecture) The bus (connections between and within the CPU, memory, and peripherals) used to carry data. Other connections are the address bus and control signals. The width and clock rate of the data bus determine its data rate (the number of bytes per second it can carry), which is one of the main factors determining the processing power of a computer. Most current processor designs use a 32-bit bus, meaning that 32 bits of data can be transferred at once. Some processors have an internal data bus which is wider than their external bus in order to make external connections cheaper while retaining some of the benefits in processing power of a wider bus. See also data path.
- disturbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disturb.
- doublets — Plural form of doublet.
- doubters — Plural form of doubter.
- dumbshit — (vulgar, pejorative, colloquial) A stupid person or someone who makes or has just made a significant mistake.
- dust bag — the bag used in some models of vacuum cleaner for the collection of dust
- dustball — A ball of dust.
- dustbins — Plural form of dustbin.
- dustbowl — An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.
- fabulist — a person who invents or relates fables.
- fibratus — (of a cloud) hairlike or striated in composition.
- fistbump — A fist bump.
- gas tube — an electron tube the envelope of which contains a highly rarefied gas.
- get busy — hurry to do sth
- gumboots — a rubber boot.
- gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
- gustable — Having a taste; capable of being tasted.
- habitues — Plural form of habitu\u00e9.
- halibuts — Plural form of halibut.
- hatbrush — a soft brush for hats
- hautbois — hautboy.
- hautboys — Plural form of hautboy.
- humblest — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- isobutyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent hydrocarbon radical derived from isobutanol.
- istanbul — a port in NW Turkey, on both sides of the Bosporus: built by Constantine I on the site of ancient Byzantium; capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and of the Ottoman Empire; capital removed to Ankara 1923.
- jebusite — a member of an ancient Canaanite people that lived in Jebus.
- lubitsch — Ernst [urnst;; German ernst] /ɜrnst;; German ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1892–1947, German film director and producer, in the U.S. after 1922.
- misbuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- misdoubt — doubt or suspicion.
- motorbus — a passenger bus powered by a motor.