8-letter words containing bur
- disburse — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- duisburg — a city in W Germany, at the junction of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers: the largest river port in Europe; formed 1929 from the cities of Duisburg and Hamborn.
- dunaburg — German name of Daugavpils.
- eburnean — Made of ivory.
- eburnine — (rare) Like ivory.
- edinburg — a city in S Texas.
- faburden — an early system of musical harmonization
- finsbury — former metropolitan borough of EC London, now part of Islington
- freiburg — a city in SW Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- ginsburg — Ruth Bader [bey-der] /ˈbeɪ dər/ (Show IPA), born 1933, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1993.
- ginzburg — Natalia (nataˈliːa). 1916–91, Italian writer and dramatist. Her books include The Road to the City (1942), Voices in the Evening (1961), and Family Sayings (1963)
- 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.
- homburgs — Plural form of homburg.
- imbursed — Simple past tense and past participle of imburse.
- jedburgh — a border town in the Borders region, in SE Scotland: ruins of an abbey.
- 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
- leesburg — a city in central Florida.
- lilburne — John. ?1614-57, English Puritan pamphleteer and leader of the Levellers, a radical group prominent during the Civil War
- lüneburg — a city in N Germany, in Lower Saxony: capital of the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1235 to 1369; prominent Hanse town; saline springs. Pop: 70 614 (2003 est)
- millburn — a township in NE New Jersey.
- millbury — a city in central Massachusetts.
- moorburn — the practice of burning off old growth on a heather moor to encourage new growth for grazing
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- orenburg — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- outburst — a sudden and violent release or outpouring: an outburst of tears.
- overburn — to copy (information, music, etc) onto a CD over previously recorded data
- postburn — after injury from burns
- reburial — the act of burying (something, esp a dead body) in the ground again
- roburite — a flameless safety explosive used in mines
- roseburg — a city in W Oregon.
- roxburgh — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- saburral — relating to saburra
- 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
- simsbury — a town in central Connecticut.
- suburban — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- suburbia — suburbs collectively.
- 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.
- thonburi — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- unburden — to free from a burden.
- unburied — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- unburned — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
- unburrow — to come out of or force out of a burrow
- usumbura — former name of Bujumbura.