8-letter words containing s, t, u
- 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.
- bathtubs — Plural form of bathtub.
- bathurst — a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)
- beauties — the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).
- behistun — a village in W Iran by the ancient road from Ecbatana to Babylon. On a nearby cliff is an inscription by Darius in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian describing his enthronement
- bejesuit — to convert to Jesuitism
- besought — beseech
- besuited — wearing a suit
- bettinus — a crater in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (96 km) in diameter.
- biscuity — tasting or smelling of biscuit
- bistoury — a long surgical knife with a narrow blade
- blastula — an early form of an animal embryo that develops from a morula, consisting of a sphere of cells with a central cavity
- blissout — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- bluestem — a name applied to a number of North American prairie grasses
- bluntish — somewhat blunt
- blurbist — a person who writes blurbs
- blustery — Blustery weather is rough, windy, and often rainy, with the wind often changing in strength or direction.
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- 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.
- 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
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- buddhist — A Buddhist is a person whose religion is Buddhism.
- bulldust — fine dust
- bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bullshit — If you say that something is bullshit, you are saying that it is nonsense or completely untrue.
- bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- bursitis — inflammation of a bursa, esp one in the shoulder joint
- 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 stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.
- bush lot — a tract of timberland
- bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
- bush tit — any of several North American titmice of the genus Psaltriparus, which construct long, pendent nests.
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- bust ass — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
- bust out — escape from somewhere
- 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.
- butchest — butch haircut.
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous