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8-letter words containing b, u

  • bull gun — a target rifle with a heavy barrel.
  • bull pen — Baseball. a place where relief pitchers warm up during a game. the relief pitchers on a team.
  • 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
  • bullboat — a lightweight, shallow-draft boat made of hides stretched over a wooden frame and used by Plains Indians.
  • bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
  • bulldust — fine dust
  • bulldyke — a mannish lesbian
  • bulleted — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
  • bulletin — A bulletin is a short news report on the radio or television.
  • bullfrog — A bullfrog is a type of large frog which makes a very loud noise.
  • bullgine — a steam locomotive
  • bullhead — any of various small northern mainly marine scorpaenoid fishes of the family Cottidae that have a large head covered with bony plates and spines
  • bullhorn — A bullhorn is a device for making your voice sound louder in the open air.
  • bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
  • bulllike — the male of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction.
  • bullneck — an enlarged neck
  • bullnose — a rounded exterior angle, as where two walls meet
  • bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
  • bullpout — a type of fish
  • bullring — A bullring is a circular area of ground surrounded by rows of seats where bullfights take place.
  • bullseye — the circular spot, usually black or outlined in black, at the center of a target marked with concentric circles and used in target practice.
  • bullshit — If you say that something is bullshit, you are saying that it is nonsense or completely untrue.
  • bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
  • bullweed — knapweed
  • bullwhip — A bullwhip is a very long, heavy whip.
  • bullyboy — a ruffian or tough, esp a hired one
  • bullying — the intimidation of weaker people
  • bullyism — the belief in systematic bullying
  • bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
  • bulrushy — made of or resembling bulrushes
  • bultmann — Rudolf Karl. 1884–1976, German theologian, noted for his demythologizing approach to the New Testament
  • 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.
  • bumbling — If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • bumfluff — the soft and fluffy growth of hair on the chin of an adolescent
  • bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
  • bump off — To bump someone off means to kill them.
  • bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
  • bun foot — a foot having the form of a slightly flattened ball.
  • bunch up — If people or things bunch up or bunch together, or if you bunch them up or bunch them together, they move close to each other so that they form a small tight group.
  • bunchily — in a bunchy manner
  • bunching — a connected group; cluster: a bunch of grapes.
  • buncombe — bunkum
  • bundling — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
  • bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
  • bunfight — a tea party
  • bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
  • bunghole — a hole in a cask, barrel, etc, through which liquid can be poured or drained
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