8-letter words containing s, o, u
- barosaur — a large herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck and tail, similar to the diplodocus
- bash out — If you say that someone bashes something out, you mean that they produce it quickly or in large quantities, but without much care or thought.
- baudrons — a cat
- beclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becloud.
- bedouins — Plural form of bedouin.
- beehouse — A beehive or apiary.
- beshroud — to cover with a shroud
- besought — beseech
- besouled — having a soul
- bespouse — to marry
- bibulous — addicted to alcohol
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- bistoury — a long surgical knife with a narrow blade
- blissout — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- 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.
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- blush-on — blusher (def 2).
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- bobruisk — a port in Belarus, on the River Berezina: engineering, timber, tyre manufacturing. Pop: 219 000 (2005 est)
- 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.
- boksburg — city in central Gauteng province, South Africa: pop. 120,000
- bosporus — strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara: c. 20 mi (32 km) long
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- boudeuse — a sofa or settee, usually upholstered, having two seats with a common backrest between them.
- bourbons — a member of a French royal family that ruled in France 1589–1792, Spain 1700–1931, and Naples 1735–1806, 1815–60.
- boursier — a foundation level scholar
- bousouki — bouzouki.
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- brush-on — fit to be applied with a brush: a brush-on paint remover.
- brushoff — an abrupt or rude dismissal, esp. in the phrase give (or get) the brushoff
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bughouse — a mental hospital or asylum
- bullnose — a rounded exterior angle, as where two walls meet
- bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- burnoose — a long cloak with a hood, worn by Arabs and Moors
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- bus stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.