8-letter words containing bu
- outbuild — (transitive) To build more or better than.
- outbulge — to bulge outwards
- outbully — to exceed in bullying
- outburst — a sudden and violent release or outpouring: an outburst of tears.
- overbulk — to dwarf or loom over in an oppressive way
- overburn — to copy (information, music, etc) onto a CD over previously recorded data
- overbusy — Excessively busy.
- overbuys — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbuy.
- pill bug — any of various small terrestrial isopods, especially of the genera Armadillidium and Oniscus, which can roll themselves up into a spherical shape.
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- pit bull — American Staffordshire terrier.
- postburn — after injury from burns
- prebuild — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- prebuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- pudibund — prudish or shameful
- rambutan — the bright-red oval fruit of a Malayan, sapindaceous tree, Nephelium lappaceum, covered with soft spines, or hairs, and having a subacid taste.
- reburial — the act of burying (something, esp a dead body) in the ground again
- rebuttal — an act of rebutting, as in a debate.
- rebutted — to refute by evidence or argument.
- rebutter — a defendant's answer to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
- rebutton — to button (a garment, etc) again
- reedbuck — any of several yellowish African antelopes of the genus Redunca, living near lakes and rivers, the male of which has short, forward-curving horns.
- roburite — a flameless safety explosive used in mines
- robustly — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- roseburg — a city in W Oregon.
- rosebush — a shrub that bears roses.
- roxburgh — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- sabulous — sandy; gritty.
- saburral — relating to saburra
- saltbush — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Atriplex, having mostly alternate leaves and clusters of inconspicuous flowers, often growing in saline or alkaline soil.
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- sandburr — a variety of wild grass
- sap bush — sugarbush (def 2).
- semibull — a bull or official document issued by the pope after his election but before his coronation
- shabuoth — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- shadbush — the serviceberry, Amelanchier canadensis.
- sillabub — syllabub.
- simsbury — a town in central Connecticut.
- sloebush — a bush on which sloes grow
- snowbush — any of several ornamental shrubs having a profusion of white flowers, as Ceanothus cordulatus, of the buckthorn family, native to western North America.
- sonobuoy — a buoy that emits a radio signal on receiving an underwater signal from a vessel.
- subbuteo — a football game played on a table, with toy players affixed to rounded bases which are flicked with the fingers
- subucula — (in ancient Rome) an undergarment or subtunic worn by men;
- subulate — slender, somewhat cylindrical, and tapering to a point; awl-shaped.
- suburban — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- suburbia — suburbs collectively.
- succubus — a demon in female form, said to have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep. Compare incubus (def 1).
- sunburnt — inflammation of the skin caused by overexposure to the sun or a sunlamp.
- sunburst — a burst of sunlight; a sudden shining of the sun through rifted clouds.