8-letter words containing r, u, b, e
- budgeree — excellent; fine
- budgerow — a large slow-moving barge formerly used on the Ganges
- budgeter — a person who budgets
- buffered — an apparatus at the end of a railroad car, railroad track, etc., for absorbing shock during coupling, collisions, etc.
- buggered — If someone says that they will be buggered if they will do something, they mean that they do not want to do it and they will definitely not do it.
- bumblers — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- buplever — any of various yellow-flowered umbelliferous plants of the genus Bupleurum
- bur reed — a marsh plant of the genus Sparganium, having narrow leaves, round clusters of small green flowers, and round prickly fruit: family Sparganiaceae
- burberry — a light good-quality raincoat, esp of gabardine
- burbidge — (Eleanor) Margaret (Peachey) [pee-chee] /ˈpi tʃi/ (Show IPA), born 1919, U.S. astronomer, born in England.
- burdened — If you are burdened with something, it causes you a lot of worry or hard work.
- burdener — a person who burdens
- burghley — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. 1520–98, English statesman: chief adviser to Elizabeth I; secretary of state (1558–72) and Lord High Treasurer (1572–98)
- 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)
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- burlecue — burlesque (def 3).
- burleigh — Burghley
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- burletta — a type of comic opera
- 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
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- burrowed — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- buttered — having had butter spread over or applied to it
- buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- cerberus — a dog, usually represented as having three heads, that guarded the entrance to Hades
- cerebrum — the anterior portion of the brain of vertebrates, consisting of two lateral hemispheres joined by a thick band of fibres: the dominant part of the brain in man, associated with intellectual function, emotion, and personality
- cherubic — If someone looks cherubic, they look sweet and innocent like a cherub.
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- cherubin — Obsolete form of cherub.
- chubbier — Comparative form of chubby.
- chubster — An overweight person.
- cleburne — a city in N Texas, near Fort Worth.
- clubbers — Plural form of clubber.
- crucible — A crucible is a pot in which metals or other substances can be melted or heated up to very high temperatures.
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- cubature — the determination of the cubic contents of something
- cucumber — A cucumber is a long thin vegetable with a hard green skin and wet transparent flesh. It is eaten raw in salads.
- cumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of cumber.