8-letter words containing a, b, u, r, e
- breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
- briareus — a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- buckrake — a large rake for agricultural use, often attached to a tractor
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- burletta — a type of comic opera
- burnable — able to be burned
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- cubature — the determination of the cubic contents of something
- curbable — able to be curbed or restrained
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- durables — (economics) Plural form of durable; durable goods.
- eboracum — ancient name of York, England.
- eburnean — Made of ivory.
- eurybath — an aquatic organism that can live at different depths
- faburden — an early system of musical harmonization
- february — the second month of the year, ordinarily containing 28 days, but containing 29 days in leap years. Abbreviation: Feb.
- flaubert — Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1821–80, French novelist.
- hauberks — Plural form of hauberk.
- inurbane — not urbane; lacking in courtesy, refinement, etc.
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- laboured — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- labourer — Standard spelling of laborer.
- menu bar — a horizontal menu displayed at the top of a computer screen or window, listing available menus for an application, as File, Edit, and View.
- mirabeau — Honoré Gabriel Victor Riqueti [aw-naw-rey ga-bree-el veek-tawr reekuh-tee] /ɔ nɔˈreɪ ga briˈɛl vikˈtɔr rikəˈti/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1749–91, French Revolutionary statesman and orator.
- obdurate — unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
- obturate — to stop up; close.
- outbrave — to stand up to; face defiantly: to outbrave charges of misconduct.
- outbreak — a sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption: the outbreak of war.
- penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- pourable — able to be poured
- prunable — Archaic. to preen.
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- quebrada — Southwestern U.S. a ravine.
- reburial — the act of burying (something, esp a dead body) in the ground again
- rebuttal — an act of rebutting, as in a debate.
- reusable — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- rombauer — Irma von Starkloff [stahrk-lawf,, ‐lof] /ˈstɑrk lɔf,, ‐lɒf/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, U.S. cooking expert and cookbook writer.
- rubellan — a red-coloured mineral
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- runnable — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.