8-letter words containing u, r, b, a
- flaubert — Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1821–80, French novelist.
- fourball — a match for two pairs in which each player uses his own ball, the better score of each pair being counted at every hole
- frabjous — wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.
- funboard — (surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
- gaboriau — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1835–73, French author of detective stories.
- glabrous — having a surface devoid of hair or pubescence.
- globular — globe-shaped; spherical.
- grub saw — a handsaw for cutting stone.
- habsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harbours — Plural form of harbour.
- harunobu — Suzuki [soo-zoo-kee] /sʊˈzu ki/ (Show IPA), 1720?–70, Japanese painter and printmaker.
- hatbrush — a soft brush for hats
- hauberks — Plural form of hauberk.
- inurbane — not urbane; lacking in courtesy, refinement, etc.
- jabalpur — a city in central Madhya Pradesh, in central India.
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- labarums — Plural form of labarum.
- laborous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- laboured — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- labourer — Standard spelling of laborer.
- labrusca — of or derived from the North American fox grape, Vitis labrusca.
- laburnum — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lansbury — George. 1859–1940, British Labour politician, who led the Labour Party in opposition (1931–35). A committed pacifist, he resigned over the party's reaction to Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia
- lubrical — Obsolete form of lubric.
- marabous — Plural form of marabou.
- marabout — Islam. a hermit or holy man, especially in N Africa, often wielding political power and credited with supernatural powers. the tomb or shrine of such a man.
- menu bar — a horizontal menu displayed at the top of a computer screen or window, listing available menus for an application, as File, Edit, and View.
- mirabeau — Honoré Gabriel Victor Riqueti [aw-naw-rey ga-bree-el veek-tawr reekuh-tee] /ɔ nɔˈreɪ ga briˈɛl vikˈtɔr rikəˈti/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1749–91, French Revolutionary statesman and orator.
- muck bar — a rough bar of wrought iron, rolled from blooms of iron extracted from a puddling furnace.
- mud crab — a large edible crab, Scylla serrata, of Australian mangrove regions
- murdabad — down with; death to: used as part of a slogan in India, Pakistan, etc
- nonurban — Not urban.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- obdurate — unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- obturate — to stop up; close.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- outboard — located on the exterior of a hull or aircraft.
- outbrave — to stand up to; face defiantly: to outbrave charges of misconduct.
- outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl
- outbreak — a sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption: the outbreak of war.
- penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- pourable — able to be poured
- prunable — Archaic. to preen.
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- quebrada — Southwestern U.S. a ravine.
- radium b — an isotope of lead, formed by decay of radium A, that gives rise to radium C, which is an isotope of bismuth, from which radium D, radium E, and radium F, or polonium 210, are derived.
- rambutan — the bright-red oval fruit of a Malayan, sapindaceous tree, Nephelium lappaceum, covered with soft spines, or hairs, and having a subacid taste.