8-letter words containing b, u, i
- bluntish — somewhat blunt
- blurbist — a person who writes blurbs
- blurrier — blurred; indistinct.
- blurrily — in a blurry manner
- blushing — to redden, as from embarrassment or shame: He blushed when they called him a conquering hero.
- bobruisk — a port in Belarus, on the River Berezina: engineering, timber, tyre manufacturing. Pop: 219 000 (2005 est)
- bodysuit — A bodysuit is a piece of women's clothing that fits tightly over the top part of the body and fastens between the legs.
- boethius — Anicius Manlius Severinus (əˈnɪsɪəs ˈmænlɪəs ˌsɛvəˈraɪnəs). ?480–?524 ad, Roman philosopher and statesman, noted particularly for his work De Consolatione Philosophiae. He was accused of treason and executed by Theodoric
- bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- bouderie — sulkiness, pouting
- boudicca — died 62 ad, a queen of the Iceni, who led a revolt against Roman rule in Britain; after being defeated she poisoned herself
- bouillon — Bouillon is a liquid made by boiling meat and bones or vegetables in water and used to make soups and sauces.
- boulimia — bulimia.
- bouncing — If you say that someone is bouncing with health, you mean that they are very healthy. You can also refer to a bouncing baby.
- bounding — under a legal or moral obligation: He is bound by the terms of the contract.
- bountied — offering a bounty.
- bourride — a Mediterranean fish soup flavoured with aioli
- boursier — a foundation level scholar
- bousouki — bouzouki.
- boutique — A boutique is a small shop that sells fashionable clothes, shoes, or jewellery.
- bouzouki — a Greek long-necked stringed musical instrument related to the mandolin
- brachium — the arm, esp the upper part
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
- braunite — a brown or black mineral that consists of manganese oxide and silicate and is a source of manganese. Formula: 3Mn2O3.MnSiO3
- briareus — a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
- brick up — If you brick up a hole, you close it with a wall of bricks.
- bring up — When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- bruising — If someone has bruising on their body, they have bruises on it.
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- brunhild — (in the Nibelungenlied) a legendary queen won for King Gunther by the magic of Siegfried: corresponds to Brynhild in Norse mythology
- brunizem — a type of dark prairie soil
- brushier — covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood.
- bsd unix — Berkeley Software Distribution
- bubaline — (of antelopes) relating to or resembling the bubal
- bubblier — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- bubbling — a nearly spherical body of gas contained in a liquid.
- bucatini — pasta in the shape of long tubes
- buckling — Buckling happens when a force presses on a slender structure and makes it collapse.
- buckskin — Buckskin is soft, strong leather made from the skin of a deer or a goat.
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bucovina — Bukovina
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- buddhism — Buddhism is a religion which teaches that the way to end suffering is by overcoming your desires.
- buddhist — A Buddhist is a person whose religion is Buddhism.
- buddleia — any ornamental shrub of the genus Buddleia, esp B. davidii, which has long spikes of mauve flowers and is frequently visited by butterflies: family Buddleiaceae
- buginese — a member of a Muslim people inhabiting the southern part of Sulawesi.