8-letter words containing n, u
- bunghole — a hole in a cask, barrel, etc, through which liquid can be poured or drained
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- burgundy — Burgundy is used to describe things that are purplish-red in colour.
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- bushnell — David, 1742?–1824, U.S. inventor: pioneered in submarine construction.
- 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.
- busulfan — a drug used to treat cancer
- busyness — the quality or condition of being busy.
- 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.
- buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- by turns — You can use by turns to indicate that someone has two particular emotions or qualities, one after the other.