8-letter words containing a, b, u
- albumins — Plural form of albumin.
- albumose — any of a class of chemical compounds derived from albumins by the action of certain enzymes, as in digestion
- alburnum — sapwood
- amberous — of, relating to or resembling amber
- ambulant — moving about from place to place
- ambulate — to wander about or move from one place to another
- ambushed — Simple past tense and past participle of ambush.
- ambusher — One who ambushes.
- ambushes — Plural form of ambush.
- amesbury — a town in NE Massachusetts.
- amusable — capable of being amused
- antabuse — a drug, a brand of disulfiram, used in the treatment of alcoholism, that acts by inducing nausea and other unpleasant symptoms following ingestion of alcohol; tetraethylthiuram disulphide
- aramburu — Pedro Eugenio [pe-th raw e-oo-he-nyaw] /ˈpɛ ðrɔ ˌɛ uˈhɛ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1903–70, president of Argentina 1955–58.
- arborous — relating to, or formed by, trees
- arboured — situated in, or as if in, an arbour
- arbuscle — a small tree, or a plant halfway between a shrub and a tree
- arbutean — relating to arbutus, or made from arbutus wood
- arguable — If you say that it is arguable that something is true, you believe that it can be supported by evidence and that many people would agree with it.
- arguably — You can use arguably when you are stating your opinion or belief, as a way of giving more authority to it.
- arquebus — a portable long-barrelled gun dating from the 15th century: fired by a wheel-lock or matchlock
- asbestus — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- at about — time: at approximately
- aubrieta — any of a genus (Aubrieta) of plants of the crucifer family native to the Middle East, with showy, purplish flowers: often grown in rock gardens
- aubusson — a town in central France, in the Creuse department: a centre for flat-woven carpets and for tapestries since the 16th century. Pop: 4662 (1999)
- audibled — Simple past tense and past participle of audible.
- audibles — Plural form of audible.
- auerbach — Frank (Helmuth). born 1931, British painter, born in Germany, noted esp for his use of impasto
- augsburg — a city in S Germany, in Bavaria: founded by the Romans in 14 bc; site of the diet that produced the Peace of Augsburg (1555), which ended the struggles between Lutherans and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire and established the principle that each ruler should determine the form of worship in his lands. Pop: 259 217 (2003 est)
- autobahn — An autobahn is a German motorway.
- autobank — a machine offering cash and other banking services
- autobaud — automatic baud rate detection
- autobiog — autobiography.
- autobody — Alternative form of auto body.
- babassus — Plural form of babassu.
- babirusa — a wild pig, Babyrousa babyrussa, inhabiting marshy forests in Indonesia. It has an almost hairless wrinkled skin and enormous curved canine teeth
- babouche — a Middle-Eastern, particularly Turkish, heelless slipper
- babruysk — a city in SE Belarus, in Europe, SE of Minsk.
- babushka — a headscarf tied under the chin, worn by Russian peasant women
- bacchius — a metrical foot of one short syllable followed by two long ones (◡ – –)
- bacillus — A bacillus is any bacterium that has a long, thin shape.
- back out — If you back out, you decide not to do something that you previously agreed to do.
- back rub — a form of massage in which the masseur rubs one's back
- back run — a period during which a particular process, as the flow of materials in manufacturing, is reversed.
- backburn — to clear (an area of scrub, bush, etc) by creating a new fire that burns in the opposite direction to the line of advancing fire
- backhaul — a return load of cargo; cargo which is carried by a vehicle on its return journey
- backrush — the return of water seaward, down the foreshore of a beach, following the uprush of a wave.
- baculine — relating to flogging with a rod
- baculite — an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period, fossils of which have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length
- bad luck — You can say 'Bad luck', or 'Hard luck', to someone when you want to express sympathy to them.
- badmouth — (informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.