8-letter words containing o, u
- bicolour — two-coloured
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- bigmouth — a noisy, indiscreet, or boastful person
- bihourly — occurring every two hours
- bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
- biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- bistoury — a long surgical knife with a narrow blade
- blackout — A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
- blissout — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- block up — If you block something up or if it blocks up, it is blocked completely so that nothing can get through it.
- bloombug — (humour) A bug that accidentally generates money.
- blot out — If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
- blousily — in the manner of a blouse
- blousing — a usually lightweight, loose-fitting garment for women and children, covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, with or without a collar and sleeves, worn inside or outside a skirt, slacks, etc.
- blow out — If you blow out a flame or a candle, you blow at it so that it stops burning.
- blow-gun — a pipe or tube through which darts or other missiles are blown by the breath.
- blow-out — (of the wind or air) to be in motion.
- blown-up — (of a picture, photograph, image, etc.) enlarged.
- blowtube — a tube used for blowing air or oxygen into a flame to intensify its heat
- bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
- blue box — a blue plastic container for domestic refuse that is to be collected and recycled
- blue cod — a common marine spiny-finned food fish, Parapercis colias, of the sub-Antarctic waters of New Zealand, esp at the Chatham Islands, which is greenish blue with brown marbling and inhabits rocky bottoms. Its smoked flesh is considered a delicacy
- blue fox — a variety of the arctic fox that has a pale grey winter coat and is bred for its fur
- blue rod — officer of the Order of St Michael and St George
- bluebook — (in Britain) a government publication bound in a stiff blue paper cover: usually the report of a royal commission or a committee
- bluecoat — a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
- bluegown — a bedesman of the king or, in Scotland, a licensed beggar, who traditionally wore a blue gown
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- bluewood — a kind of shrub of the buckthorn family, Condalia obovata, found in Texas and northern Mexico
- blush-on — blusher (def 2).
- board up — If you board up a door or window, you fix pieces of wood over it so that it is covered up.
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- boat bug — water boatman.
- bobruisk — a port in Belarus, on the River Berezina: engineering, timber, tyre manufacturing. Pop: 219 000 (2005 est)
- body rub — massage.
- bodysuit — A bodysuit is a piece of women's clothing that fits tightly over the top part of the body and fastens between the legs.
- bodysurf — to engage in the sport of surfing while lying prone on a wave without the use of a surfboard
- boethius — Anicius Manlius Severinus (əˈnɪsɪəs ˈmænlɪəs ˌsɛvəˈraɪnəs). ?480–?524 ad, Roman philosopher and statesman, noted particularly for his work De Consolatione Philosophiae. He was accused of treason and executed by Theodoric
- bog rush — a blackish tufted cyperaceous plant, Schoenus nigricans, growing on boggy ground
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- bohr bug — (jargon, programming) /bohr buhg/ (From Quantum physics) A repeatable bug; one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of conditions. Compare heisenbug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- boksburg — city in central Gauteng province, South Africa: pop. 120,000
- bomb out — If a building or area is bombed out, it is destroyed by bombs. If people are bombed out, their houses are destroyed by bombs.
- bomb run — the part of a bombing mission between the sighting of the target or its identification by electronic instruments and the release of the bombs.
- book out — to leave or cause to leave a hotel
- boom out — sound loudly and deeply
- boomburb — a large suburb experiencing rapid population growth
- boot out — If someone boots you out of a job, organization, or place, you are forced to leave it.