8-letter words containing b, u
- bungling — to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch: He bungled the job.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- bunk bed — Bunk beds are two beds fixed one above the other in a frame.
- bunk off — If you bunk off from school or work, you leave without permission and do something else.
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- bunkroom — temporary sleeping quarters, especially for travelers.
- bunodont — (of the teeth of certain mammals) having cusps that are separate and rounded
- buntline — one of several lines fastened to the foot of a square sail for hauling it up to the yard when furling
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- buplever — any of various yellow-flowered umbelliferous plants of the genus Bupleurum
- bur reed — a marsh plant of the genus Sparganium, having narrow leaves, round clusters of small green flowers, and round prickly fruit: family Sparganiaceae
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- burberry — a light good-quality raincoat, esp of gabardine
- burbidge — (Eleanor) Margaret (Peachey) [pee-chee] /ˈpi tʃi/ (Show IPA), born 1919, U.S. astronomer, born in England.
- burbling — the bubbling or gurgling sound of water
- burdened — If you are burdened with something, it causes you a lot of worry or hard work.
- burdener — a person who burdens
- burdizzo — a surgical instrument used to castrate animals
- burghley — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. 1520–98, English statesman: chief adviser to Elizabeth I; secretary of state (1558–72) and Lord High Treasurer (1572–98)
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- burgundy — Burgundy is used to describe things that are purplish-red in colour.
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- burlecue — burlesque (def 3).
- burleigh — Burghley
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- burletta — a type of comic opera
- burlwood — wood taken or cut from a burl.
- burn bag — a special bag into which discarded secret or sensitive documents are placed for burning.
- burn off — If someone burns off energy, they use it.
- burn out — If a fire burns itself out, it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn.
- burnable — able to be burned
- burnoose — a long cloak with a hood, worn by Arabs and Moors
- burnside — land along the side of a burn
- burp gun — an automatic pistol or submachine gun
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- burr cut — crew cut.
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- burrfish — any of several porcupinefishes of the genus Chilomycterus, covered with short, immovable spines.
- burrowed — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- bursitis — inflammation of a bursa, esp one in the shoulder joint
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
- bus line — the route of a bus or buses.