8-letter words containing b, u, s
- quasheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quibbles — Plural form of quibble.
- resubmit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- reusable — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- robustly — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- roseburg — a city in W Oregon.
- rosebush — a shrub that bears roses.
- rubbishy — full of rubbish: a rubbishy cellar.
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- rush job — something created quickly, urgently, or without due care
- rustable — liable to rust
- rustbelt — the heavily industrial area of the northeastern U.S. containing the older industries and factories.
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sabulous — sandy; gritty.
- saburral — relating to saburra
- saltbush — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Atriplex, having mostly alternate leaves and clusters of inconspicuous flowers, often growing in saline or alkaline soil.
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- sandburr — a variety of wild grass
- sap bush — sugarbush (def 2).
- saucebox — a saucy person.
- scabious — covered with or consisting of scabs; scabby.
- scabrous — having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
- schubert — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1797–1828, Austrian composer.
- scrub up — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scrub-up — an act or instance of scrubbing.
- scrubbed — stunted; scrubby.
- scrubber — a prostitute or promiscuous woman.
- scuzzbag — a despicable or unethical person
- scybalum — hard faeces in the intestine
- semibull — a bull or official document issued by the pope after his election but before his coronation
- shabuoth — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- shadbush — the serviceberry, Amelanchier canadensis.
- sibelius — Jean (Julius Christian) [zhahn yoo-lyoo s kris-tyahn] /ʒɑn ˈyu lyʊs ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1865–1957, Finnish composer.
- sillabub — syllabub.
- 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
- sky blue — the color of the unclouded sky in daytime; azure.
- sky-blue — Something that is sky-blue is a very pale blue in colour.
- sloebush — a bush on which sloes grow
- slugabed — a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
- slumbery — slumberous.
- snowbush — any of several ornamental shrubs having a profusion of white flowers, as Ceanothus cordulatus, of the buckthorn family, native to western North America.
- snubbing — to treat with disdain or contempt, especially by ignoring.
- snubbish — somewhat snub
- snubness — the condition or state of being snub
- snuffbox — a box for holding snuff, especially one small enough to be carried in the pocket.
- sober up — recover from being drunk
- sombrous — somber.
- sonobuoy — a buoy that emits a radio signal on receiving an underwater signal from a vessel.