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