8-letter words starting with bu
- bultmann — Rudolf Karl. 1884–1976, German theologian, noted for his demythologizing approach to the New Testament
- bum-rush — to force one's way into; crash: to bum-rush a rap concert.
- bumblers — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bumbling — If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- bumfluff — the soft and fluffy growth of hair on the chin of an adolescent
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- bump off — To bump someone off means to kill them.
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- bun foot — a foot having the form of a slightly flattened ball.
- bunch up — If people or things bunch up or bunch together, or if you bunch them up or bunch them together, they move close to each other so that they form a small tight group.
- bunchily — in a bunchy manner
- bunching — a connected group; cluster: a bunch of grapes.
- buncombe — bunkum
- bundling — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
- bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
- bunfight — a tea party
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bunghole — a hole in a cask, barrel, etc, through which liquid can be poured or drained
- bungling — to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch: He bungled the job.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- bunk bed — Bunk beds are two beds fixed one above the other in a frame.
- bunk off — If you bunk off from school or work, you leave without permission and do something else.
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- bunkroom — temporary sleeping quarters, especially for travelers.
- bunodont — (of the teeth of certain mammals) having cusps that are separate and rounded
- buntline — one of several lines fastened to the foot of a square sail for hauling it up to the yard when furling
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- buplever — any of various yellow-flowered umbelliferous plants of the genus Bupleurum
- bur reed — a marsh plant of the genus Sparganium, having narrow leaves, round clusters of small green flowers, and round prickly fruit: family Sparganiaceae
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- burberry — a light good-quality raincoat, esp of gabardine
- 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
- burdened — If you are burdened with something, it causes you a lot of worry or hard work.
- burdener — a person who burdens
- burdizzo — a surgical instrument used to castrate animals
- burghley — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. 1520–98, English statesman: chief adviser to Elizabeth I; secretary of state (1558–72) and Lord High Treasurer (1572–98)
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- burgundy — Burgundy is used to describe things that are purplish-red in colour.
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- burlecue — burlesque (def 3).
- burleigh — Burghley
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- burletta — a type of comic opera
- burlwood — wood taken or cut from a burl.