8-letter words containing u, n, e
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- burdened — If you are burdened with something, it causes you a lot of worry or hard work.
- burdener — a person who burdens
- 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)
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- 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
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
- bus line — the route of a bus or buses.
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- bushnell — David, 1742?–1824, U.S. inventor: pioneered in submarine construction.
- business — Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
- buskined — relating to tragic drama
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- busyness — the quality or condition of being busy.
- 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
- butt end — butt1 (defs 1, 2).
- butylene — any of four alkenes, including isobutylene, having the same formula, C4H8, but differing in properties and structure
- caducean — relating to a caduceus
- cameroun — Cameroon
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- cannulae — Irregular plural form of cannula.
- canulate — Alternative form of cannulate.
- capaneus — one of the Seven against Thebes, who was destroyed by Zeus for blasphemy.
- carneous — fleshy
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
- ceinture — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- cementum — a thin bonelike tissue that covers the dentine in the root of a tooth
- censured — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- censurer — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- censures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of censure.
- censused — an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
- censuses — Plural form of census.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- centuple — a hundred times as much or as many; hundredfold
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cernuous — (of some flowers or buds) drooping
- cerulean — a deep blue colour; azure
- cerulein — a bright blue dyestuff obtained from indigo
- changeup — Alternative form of change-up.
- chanteur — a male singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
- chauncey — a masculine name
- chequing — (British, and, Canada) alternative spelling of checking.
- cherubin — Obsolete form of cherub.