8-letter words containing o, u, b, i
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- 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.
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- chibouks — Plural form of chibouk.
- ciborium — a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
- colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
- columbia — a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- columbic — niobic.
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- cubiform — having the shape of a cube
- cuboidal — Also, cuboidal. resembling a cube in form.
- cui bono — for whose benefit? for what purpose?
- disbound — (of a book) having the binding torn or loose.
- djibouti — Formerly French Somaliland, French Territory of the Afars and Issas. a republic in E Africa, on the Gulf of Aden: a former overseas territory of France; gained independence 1977. 8492 sq. mi. (21,994 sq. km). Capital: Djibouti.
- doubling — anything that is twofold in size or amount or twice the usual size, quantity, strength, etc.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- euphobia — Fear of hearing good news.
- fiberous — Misspelling of fibrous.
- four-bit — 50 cents.
- fribourg — a canton in W Switzerland. 644 sq. mi. (1668 sq. km).
- gaboriau — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1835–73, French author of detective stories.
- gelibolu — a peninsula in NW European Turkey, extending between the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles. 50 miles (80 km) long.
- globulin — any of a group of proteins, as myosin, occurring in plant and animal tissue, insoluble in pure water but soluble in dilute salt solutions and coagulable by heat.
- gumboils — Plural form of gumboil.
- gumbotil — a sticky clay formed by the thorough weathering of glacial drift, the thickness of the clay furnishing means for comparing relative lengths of interglacial ages.
- hautbois — hautboy.
- huidobro — Vicente [bee-sen-te] /biˈsɛn tɛ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1948, Chilean poet.
- icebound — held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship.
- in doubt — uncertain
- inbounds — Sports. being within the boundaries of a court or field.
- incubous — (of leaves) overlapping, with the upper part of each leaf covering the base of the leaf above it.
- isobutyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent hydrocarbon radical derived from isobutanol.
- jumboize — (nautical) To lengthen a ship replacing an existing section with a longer section or inserting an additional section.
- kilobaud — (unit) 1000 baud.
- libelous — containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously defamatory.
- lifebuoy — A life preserver, especially one in the shape of a ring.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- lion cub — baby lion
- microbus — minibus.
- misdoubt — doubt or suspicion.
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- nubiform — cloud-like
- nubilous — cloudy or foggy.
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- obliqued — neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
- obliques — Collectively, the abdominal muscles responsible for rotation of the trunk.
- obliquid — aimed in an oblique direction
- olibanum — frankincense.
- outbitch — to bitch more than or better than