8-letter words containing h, u
- breughel — Jan Bruegel
- brochure — A brochure is a magazine or thin book with pictures that gives you information about a product or service.
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- brougham — a four-wheeled horse-drawn closed carriage having a raised open driver's seat in front
- brouhaha — A brouhaha is an excited and critical fuss or reaction to something.
- brueghel — Jan (jɑn). 1568–1625, Flemish painter, noted for his detailed still lifes and landscapes
- bruncher — a person who eats brunch
- brunhild — (in the Nibelungenlied) a legendary queen won for King Gunther by the magic of Siegfried: corresponds to Brynhild in Norse mythology
- brush up — If you brush up something or brush up on it, you practise it or improve your knowledge of it.
- brush-on — fit to be applied with a brush: a brush-on paint remover.
- brushier — covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood.
- brushoff — an abrupt or rude dismissal, esp. in the phrase give (or get) the brushoff
- bucchero — an Etruscan black ceramic ware, often ornamented with incised geometrical patterns or figures carved in relief.
- buchanan — George. 1506–82, Scottish historian, who was tutor to Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI; author of History of Scotland (1582)
- buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
- buckshee — without charge; free
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- buddhism — Buddhism is a religion which teaches that the way to end suffering is by overcoming your desires.
- buddhist — A Buddhist is a person whose religion is Buddhism.
- bughouse — a mental hospital or asylum
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- bulfinch — Charles1763-1844; U.S. architect
- bulkhead — A bulkhead is a wall which divides the inside of a ship or aeroplane into separate sections.
- 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.
- 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
- bullwhip — A bullwhip is a very long, heavy whip.
- bulrushy — made of or resembling bulrushes
- bum-rush — to force one's way into; crash: to bum-rush a rap concert.
- 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.
- bunfight — a tea party
- bunghole — a hole in a cask, barrel, etc, through which liquid can be poured or drained
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- 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)
- burleigh — Burghley
- burrfish — any of several porcupinefishes of the genus Chilomycterus, covered with short, immovable spines.
- bush lot — a tract of timberland
- bush pig — any of a genus (Potamochoerus) of wild African pigs that live in forested regions
- 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.
- bush-hog — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- bushbaby — any agile nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate of the genera Galago and Euoticus, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara: family Lorisidae (lorises). They have large eyes and ears and a long tail
- bushbuck — a small nocturnal spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus, of the bush and tropical forest of Africa. Its coat is reddish-brown with a few white markings
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation