8-letter words containing bu
- burn out — If a fire burns itself out, it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn.
- 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
- burp gun — an automatic pistol or submachine gun
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- burr cut — crew cut.
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- burrfish — any of several porcupinefishes of the genus Chilomycterus, covered with short, immovable spines.
- burrowed — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- 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.
- 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.
- bus pass — a prepaid card allowing one to use buses
- bus stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.
- bush lot — a tract of timberland
- bush pig — any of a genus (Potamochoerus) of wild African pigs that live in forested regions
- bush tea — a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia, of southern Africa
- bush tit — any of several North American titmice of the genus Psaltriparus, which construct long, pendent nests.
- bush-hog — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- bushbaby — any agile nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate of the genera Galago and Euoticus, occurring in Africa south of the Sahara: family Lorisidae (lorises). They have large eyes and ears and a long tail
- bushbuck — a small nocturnal spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus, of the bush and tropical forest of Africa. Its coat is reddish-brown with a few white markings
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- bushless — devoid of vegetation
- bushlike — resembling a bush
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- bushnell — David, 1742?–1824, U.S. inventor: pioneered in submarine construction.
- bushwalk — to hike through bushland
- business — Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
- buskined — relating to tragic drama
- bust ass — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
- bust out — escape from somewhere
- 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.
- busulfan — a drug used to treat cancer
- busy bee — a person who is industrious or has many things to do
- busybody — If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs.
- busyness — the quality or condition of being busy.
- busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
- but that — about the fact that
- 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
- butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- butchest — butch haircut.