8-letter words containing u, b, n, t
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- 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.
- but then — You use but then before a remark which suggests that what you have just said should not be regarded as surprising.
- 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
- butt end — butt1 (defs 1, 2).
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- butylene — any of four alkenes, including isobutylene, having the same formula, C4H8, but differing in properties and structure
- buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
- by turns — You can use by turns to indicate that someone has two particular emotions or qualities, one after the other.
- debutant — a person who is making a first appearance in a particular capacity, such as a sportsperson playing in a first game for a team
- debuting — a first public appearance on a stage, on television, etc.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- dubonnet — (lowercase) a deep purple-red color.
- dustbins — Plural form of dustbin.
- excubant — keeping watch; on guard
- gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
- hunt box — a hunting lodge or house near or in a hunting area for use during the hunting season.
- huntable — capable of being hunted
- in doubt — uncertain
- in-built — built-in (def 2).
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- intubate — to insert a tube into (the larynx or the like).
- istanbul — a port in NW Turkey, on both sides of the Bosporus: built by Constantine I on the site of ancient Byzantium; capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and of the Ottoman Empire; capital removed to Ankara 1923.
- job hunt — search for employment
- job-hunt — to seek employment; look for a job.
- jubilant — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- jubilent — Misspelling of jubilant.
- mangbetu — a member of a people of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- nanotube — A cylindrical molecule of a fullerene.
- nembutal — pentobarbital sodium
- nembutsu — meditation on the name of Amida.
- no doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- none but — None but means only.
- northumb — Northumberland
- nubbiest — Superlative form of nubby.
- nubility — (of a young woman) suitable for marriage, especially in regard to age or physical development; marriageable.
- numbnuts — a stupid or despicable person
- nutbrown — dark brown, as many nuts when ripe.
- obtunded — to blunt; dull; deaden.
- outblown — Inflated with wind.
- outbound — outward bound: an outbound freighter.
- pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
- postburn — after injury from burns
- potbound — (of a plant) having the roots so densely grown as to fill the container and require repotting.
- rambutan — the bright-red oval fruit of a Malayan, sapindaceous tree, Nephelium lappaceum, covered with soft spines, or hairs, and having a subacid taste.
- rebutton — to button (a garment, etc) again