8-letter words containing u, r, i
- bhelpuri — an Indian dish of puffed rice and vegetables
- bicolour — two-coloured
- bihourly — occurring every two hours
- binaural — relating to, having, or hearing with both ears
- biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- bird flu — Bird flu is a virus which can be transmitted from chickens, ducks, and other birds to people.
- bistoury — a long surgical knife with a narrow blade
- bluebird — any North American songbird of the genus Sialia, having a blue or partly blue plumage: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
- blurbist — a person who writes blurbs
- blurrier — blurred; indistinct.
- blurrily — in a blurry manner
- bobruisk — a port in Belarus, on the River Berezina: engineering, timber, tyre manufacturing. Pop: 219 000 (2005 est)
- bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
- bouderie — sulkiness, pouting
- bourride — a Mediterranean fish soup flavoured with aioli
- boursier — a foundation level scholar
- brachium — the arm, esp the upper part
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- 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
- briareus — a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
- brick up — If you brick up a hole, you close it with a wall of bricks.
- bring up — When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- bruising — If someone has bruising on their body, they have bruises on it.
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- brunhild — (in the Nibelungenlied) a legendary queen won for King Gunther by the magic of Siegfried: corresponds to Brynhild in Norse mythology
- brunizem — a type of dark prairie soil
- brushier — covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood.
- bubblier — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- 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
- bulgaria — a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula on the Black Sea: under Turkish rule from 1395 until 1878; became an independent kingdom in 1908 and a republic in 1946; joined the EU in 2007; consists chiefly of the Danube valley in the north and the Balkan Mountains in the central part, separated from the Rhodope Mountains of the south by the valley of the Maritsa River. Language: Bulgarian. Religion: Christian (Bulgarian Orthodox) majority. Currency: lev. Capital: Sofia. Pop: 6 981 642 (2013 est). Area: 110 911 sq km (42 823 sq miles)
- bullring — A bullring is a circular area of ground surrounded by rows of seats where bullfights take place.
- burbidge — (Eleanor) Margaret (Peachey) [pee-chee] /ˈpi tʃi/ (Show IPA), born 1919, U.S. astronomer, born in England.
- burbling — the bubbling or gurgling sound of water
- burdizzo — a surgical instrument used to castrate animals
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- burleigh — Burghley
- burnside — land along the side of a burn
- burrfish — any of several porcupinefishes of the genus Chilomycterus, covered with short, immovable spines.
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- 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.
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- caesuric — caesural
- carducci — Giosuè (dʒozuˈɛ). 1835–1907, Italian poet: Nobel prize for literature 1906
- cariacou — any of several deer of the American subgenus Cariacus