8-letter words containing i, n, u
- bsd unix — Berkeley Software Distribution
- bubaline — (of antelopes) relating to or resembling the bubal
- bubbling — a nearly spherical body of gas contained in a liquid.
- bucatini — pasta in the shape of long tubes
- buckling — Buckling happens when a force presses on a slender structure and makes it collapse.
- buckskin — Buckskin is soft, strong leather made from the skin of a deer or a goat.
- bucovina — Bukovina
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- buginese — a member of a Muslim people inhabiting the southern part of Sulawesi.
- build in — to incorporate or construct as an integral part
- build on — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- building — A building is a structure that has a roof and walls, for example a house or a factory.
- built-in — Built-in devices or features are included in something as a part of it, rather than being separate.
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- bukovina — a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of Ukraine; the south remained Romanian
- bulfinch — Charles1763-1844; U.S. architect
- bulganin — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1895–1975, Soviet statesman and military leader; chairman of the council of ministers (1955–58)
- bulletin — A bulletin is a short news report on the radio or television.
- bullgine — a steam locomotive
- bullring — A bullring is a circular area of ground surrounded by rows of seats where bullfights take place.
- bullying — the intimidation of weaker people
- 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.
- bunchily — in a bunchy manner
- bunching — a connected group; cluster: a bunch of grapes.
- bundling — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
- bunfight — a tea party
- bungling — to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch: He bungled the job.
- buntline — one of several lines fastened to the foot of a square sail for hauling it up to the yard when furling
- burbling — the bubbling or gurgling sound of water
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- burnside — land along the side of a burn
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- bus line — the route of a bus or buses.
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- business — Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
- buskined — relating to tragic drama
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
- canicula — Sirius, the Dog Star
- canticum — a canticle
- capuchin — any agile intelligent New World monkey of the genus Cebus, inhabiting forests in South America, typically having a cowl of thick hair on the top of the head
- carinula — a small carina.
- caudling — Present participle of caudle.
- caulking — to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
- caulonia — a town in S Calabria, in S Italy: ruins of ancient Achaean colony.
- cautions — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- ceinture — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.