8-letter words containing u, b, a, n
- bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
- bimanual — using or requiring both hands
- binaural — relating to, having, or hearing with both ears
- blackmun — Harry Andrew1908-99; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)
- blanquet — a variety of French pear
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- blumenau — a city in Santa Catarina state, S Brazil.
- bouffant — A bouffant hairstyle is one in which your hair is high and full.
- boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
- braeburn — a variety of eating apple from New Zealand having sweet flesh and green and red skin
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- bran tub — (in Britain) a tub containing bran in which small wrapped gifts are hidden, used at parties, fairs, etc
- branchus — a son of Apollo, given the power of augury by his father.
- brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
- braunite — a brown or black mineral that consists of manganese oxide and silicate and is a source of manganese. Formula: 3Mn2O3.MnSiO3
- breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
- brugmann — (Friedrich) Karl [free-drik kahrl;; German free-drikh kahrl] /ˈfri drɪk kɑrl;; German ˈfri drɪx kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1849–1919, German philologist.
- bubaline — (of antelopes) relating to or resembling the bubal
- bucatini — pasta in the shape of long tubes
- buchanan — George. 1506–82, Scottish historian, who was tutor to Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI; author of History of Scotland (1582)
- buckbean — a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- bucovina — Bukovina
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- bukovina — a region of E central Europe, part of the NE Carpathians: the north was seized by the Soviet Union (1940) and later became part of Ukraine; the south remained Romanian
- bulganin — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1895–1975, Soviet statesman and military leader; chairman of the council of ministers (1955–58)
- bull ant — any large Australian ant of the genus Myrmecia, having a powerful stinging bite: subfamily Ponerinae
- bultmann — Rudolf Karl. 1884–1976, German theologian, noted for his demythologizing approach to the New Testament
- bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- burn bag — a special bag into which discarded secret or sensitive documents are placed for burning.
- burnable — able to be burned
- bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- busulfan — a drug used to treat cancer
- butanone — a colourless soluble flammable liquid used mainly as a solvent for resins, as a paint remover, and in lacquers, cements, and adhesives. Formula: CH3COC2H5
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- carnauba — a Brazilian fan palm, Copernicia cerifera
- casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
- clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
- clubland — A city's clubland is the area that contains all the best nightclubs.
- conurban — of or relating to a conurbation