8-letter words containing n, u, t
- bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- banquets — Plural form of banquet.
- bat turn — a sharp and sudden change in an aircraft's heading.
- bath bun — a sweet bun containing spices and dried fruit
- beaumont — a city in SE Texas. Pop: 112 434 (2003 est)
- beechnut — the small brown triangular edible nut of the beech tree
- behistun — a village in W Iran by the ancient road from Ecbatana to Babylon. On a nearby cliff is an inscription by Darius in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian describing his enthronement
- belitung — island of Indonesia, in the Java Sea, between Borneo & Sumatra: 1,866 sq mi (4,833 sq km)
- betelnut — the seed of the betel palm, chewed with betel leaves and lime by people in S and SE Asia as a digestive stimulant and narcotic
- bettinus — a crater in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (96 km) in diameter.
- blanquet — a variety of French pear
- blunkett — David, Baron. born 1947, British Labour politician: home secretary (2001–04)
- blunting — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- bluntish — somewhat blunt
- bouffant — A bouffant hairstyle is one in which your hair is high and full.
- boughten — bought at a store and not homemade
- bountied — offering a bounty.
- boutonné — reserved or reticent
- bran tub — (in Britain) a tub containing bran in which small wrapped gifts are hidden, used at parties, fairs, etc
- braunite — a brown or black mineral that consists of manganese oxide and silicate and is a source of manganese. Formula: 3Mn2O3.MnSiO3
- breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
- brownout — a dimming or reduction in the use of electric lights in a city, esp to conserve electric power or as a defensive precaution in wartime
- brunette — A brunette is a white-skinned woman or girl with dark brown hair.
- bucatini — pasta in the shape of long tubes
- built-in — Built-in devices or features are included in something as a part of it, rather than being separate.
- bull ant — any large Australian ant of the genus Myrmecia, having a powerful stinging bite: subfamily Ponerinae
- bulletin — A bulletin is a short news report on the radio or television.
- bultmann — Rudolf Karl. 1884–1976, German theologian, noted for his demythologizing approach to the New Testament
- bun foot — a foot having the form of a slightly flattened ball.
- bunfight — a tea party
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- 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
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- burn out — If a fire burns itself out, it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn.
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- 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.
- but then — You use but then before a remark which suggests that what you have just said should not be regarded as surprising.
- butanone — a colourless soluble flammable liquid used mainly as a solvent for resins, as a paint remover, and in lacquers, cements, and adhesives. Formula: CH3COC2H5
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- butt end — butt1 (defs 1, 2).
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- butylene — any of four alkenes, including isobutylene, having the same formula, C4H8, but differing in properties and structure
- 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.
- by turns — You can use by turns to indicate that someone has two particular emotions or qualities, one after the other.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- canticum — a canticle