8-letter words starting with BU
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter BU. This section showcases how BU at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with BU, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| business | 10 | a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | he bought his brother's business |
| building | 12 | the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | workers in the building trades |
| bullshit | 13 | speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | - |
| bungalow | 14 | a small house with a single story | - |
| burgundy | 15 | a former province of eastern France that is famous for its wines | - |
| bursting | 11 | - | - |
| bullying | 14 | the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | - |
| bulletin | 10 | a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast) | - |
| buttocks | 16 | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | - |
| burglary | 14 | entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property | - |
| bubbling | 15 | marked by high spirits or excitement | - |
| burdened | 12 | bearing a physically heavy weight or load | tree limbs burdened with ice |
| bulkhead | 18 | a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments | - |
| busybody | 19 | a person who meddles in the affairs of others | - |
| buttoned | 11 | furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | - |
| bustling | 11 | full of energetic and noisy activity | a bustling city |
| bullhorn | 13 | a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier | - |
| buckshot | 19 | small lead shot for shotgun shells | - |
| bumbling | 15 | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | a bumbling mechanic |
| buoyancy | 18 | the property of something weightless and insubstantial | - |
| butchery | 18 | the business of a butcher | - |
| bullfrog | 14 | largest North American frog; highly aquatic with a deep-pitched voice | - |
| burnable | 12 | capable of burning | - |
| bulldoze | 20 | flatten with or as if with a bulldozer | - |
| buckaroo | 16 | local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | - |
| burnside | 11 | facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | - |
| bunghole | 14 | vulgar slang for anus | - |
| buckling | 17 | - | - |
| budgeted | 13 | - | - |
| bungling | 12 | showing lack of skill or aptitude | a bungling workman |
| bursitis | 10 | inflammation of a bursa; frequently in the shoulder | - |
| buffeted | 17 | pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities | - |
| bullring | 11 | a stadium where bullfights take place | - |
| burbling | 13 | uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | - |
| bullwhip | 18 | - | - |
| bundling | 12 | a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing | - |
| burrower | 13 | - | - |
| bughouse | 14 | - | - |
| bullhead | 14 | any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States | - |
| bunkmate | 16 | someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself | - |
| buttress | 10 | a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | - |
| buzzword | 32 | stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition | - |
| bubaline | 12 | relating to or resembling a buffalo | - |
| bubblers | 14 | - | - |
| bubblier | 14 | - | - |
| bubblies | 14 | - | - |
| bubingas | 13 | - | - |
| bubukles | 16 | - | - |
| bucardos | 13 | - | - |
| bucatini | 12 | - | - |
| buccally | 17 | - | - |
| buccinas | 14 | - | - |
| bucellas | 12 | - | - |
| buckayro | 19 | - | - |
| buckbean | 18 | perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | - |
| buckeens | 16 | - | - |
| buckeroo | 16 | local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | - |
| bucketed | 17 | - | - |
| buckeyes | 19 | - | - |
| buckhorn | 19 | - | - |
| buckings | 17 | - | - |
| bucklers | 16 | - | - |
| buckrake | 20 | - | - |
| buckrams | 18 | - | - |
| bucksaws | 19 | - | - |
| buckshee | 19 | free of charge | if they deposit these shares in the scheme they will get further buckshee shares on a one-for-one basis |
| buckskin | 20 | a soft yellowish suede leather originally from deerskin but now usually from sheepskin | - |
| bucktail | 16 | - | - |
| bucolics | 14 | - | - |
| buddiest | 12 | - | - |
| buddings | 13 | - | - |
| buddleia | 12 | tropical shrub having clusters of white or violet or yellow flowers | - |
| buddling | 13 | - | - |
| buddying | 16 | - | - |
| budgeree | 12 | - | - |
| budgeros | 12 | - | - |
| budgerow | 15 | - | - |
| budgeter | 12 | - | - |
| budwoods | 15 | - | - |
| budworms | 16 | - | - |
| buffable | 18 | - | - |
| buffalos | 16 | - | - |
| buffered | 17 | - | - |
| buffeter | 16 | - | - |
| buffiest | 16 | - | - |
| buffings | 17 | - | - |
| buffoons | 16 | - | - |
| bugaboos | 13 | - | - |
| bugbanes | 13 | - | - |
| bugbears | 13 | - | - |
| bugganes | 12 | - | - |
| buggered | 13 | - | - |
| buggiest | 12 | - | - |
| buggings | 13 | - | - |
| bugseeds | 12 | - | - |
| bugworts | 14 | - | - |
| buhlwork | 20 | - | - |
| builders | 11 | - | - |
| buildout | 11 | - | - |
| buildups | 13 | - | - |
| buisting | 11 | - | - |
| bukkakes | 22 | - | - |
| bukshees | 17 | - | - |
| bulblets | 12 | - | - |
| bulghurs | 14 | - | - |
| bulgiest | 11 | - | - |
| bulgines | 11 | - | - |
| bulimiac | 14 | - | - |
| bulimias | 12 | - | - |
| bulimics | 14 | - | - |
| bulimies | 12 | - | - |
| bulkages | 15 | - | - |
| bulkiest | 14 | - | - |
| bulkings | 15 | - | - |
| bullaces | 12 | - | - |
| bullbars | 12 | - | - |
| bullbats | 12 | - | - |
| bullcook | 16 | - | - |
| bulldogs | 12 | - | - |
| bulldust | 11 | - | - |
| bulldyke | 18 | - | - |
| bullered | 11 | - | - |
| bulleted | 11 | - | - |
| bullgine | 11 | - | - |
| bulliest | 10 | - | - |
| bullings | 11 | - | - |
| bullions | 10 | - | - |
| bullneck | 16 | - | - |
| bullnose | 10 | a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front | - |
| bullocks | 16 | - | - |
| bullocky | 19 | resembling a bullock in strength and power | thick bullocky shoulders |
| bullpens | 12 | - | - |
| bullpout | 12 | - | - |
| bullrush | 13 | tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | - |
| bullseye | 13 | - | - |
| bullshat | 13 | - | - |
| bullshot | 13 | a cocktail made with vodka and beef bouillon or consomme | - |
| bullweed | 14 | - | - |
| bullyboy | 18 | a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction | - |
| bullyism | 15 | - | - |
| bullyrag | 14 | be bossy towards | - |
| bulnbuln | 12 | - | - |
| bulrushy | 16 | - | - |
| bulwaddy | 18 | - | - |
| bulwarks | 17 | - | - |
| bumaloti | 12 | - | - |
| bumbazed | 24 | - | - |
| bumbazes | 23 | - | - |
| bumblers | 14 | - | - |
| bumboats | 14 | - | - |
| bumelias | 12 | - | - |
| bumfluff | 21 | - | - |
| bumfucks | 21 | - | - |
| bummalos | 14 | - | - |
| bummaree | 14 | - | - |
| bummling | 15 | - | - |
| bummocks | 20 | - | - |
| bumpered | 15 | - | - |
| bumpiest | 14 | - | - |
| bumpings | 15 | - | - |
| bumpkins | 18 | - | - |
| bumsters | 12 | - | - |
| bunchers | 15 | - | - |
| bunchier | 15 | - | - |
| bunchily | 18 | - | - |
| bunching | 16 | - | - |
| buncoing | 13 | - | - |
| buncombe | 16 | unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | - |
| bundists | 11 | - | - |
| bundlers | 11 | - | - |
| bundooks | 15 | - | - |
| bundwall | 14 | - | - |
| bundying | 15 | - | - |
| bunfight | 17 | (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | - |
| bunglers | 11 | - | - |
| bungwall | 14 | - | - |
| bunheads | 14 | - | - |
| bunkered | 15 | - | - |
| bunkoing | 15 | - | - |
| bunodont | 11 | - | - |
| bunrakus | 14 | - | - |
| buntiest | 10 | - | - |
| buntings | 11 | - | - |
| buntline | 10 | - | - |
| buoyages | 14 | - | - |
| buoyance | 15 | - | - |
| buplever | 15 | - | - |
| burblers | 12 | - | - |
| burblier | 12 | - | - |
| burdener | 11 | - | - |
| burdizzo | 29 | - | - |
| burdocks | 17 | - | - |
| burettes | 10 | - | - |
| burgages | 12 | - | - |
| burganet | 11 | - | - |
| burgeons | 11 | - | - |
| burghers | 14 | - | - |
| burghuls | 14 | - | - |
| burglars | 11 | - | - |
| burgling | 12 | - | - |
| burgonet | 11 | - | - |
| burgouts | 11 | - | - |
| burgrave | 14 | a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
| burinist | 10 | - | - |
| burkinis | 14 | - | - |
| burkites | 14 | - | - |
| burlesks | 14 | - | - |
| burletta | 10 | - | - |
| burleyed | 14 | - | - |
| burliest | 10 | - | - |
| burnings | 11 | - | - |
| burnoose | 10 | a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | - |
| burnouse | 10 | a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | - |
| burnouts | 10 | - | - |
| burquini | 19 | - | - |
| burramys | 15 | - | - |
| burratas | 10 | - | - |
| burrells | 10 | - | - |
| burrfish | 16 | any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines | - |
| burrhels | 13 | - | - |
| burriest | 10 | - | - |
| burritos | 10 | - | - |
| burrowed | 14 | - | - |
| burseeds | 11 | - | - |
| bursicon | 12 | - | - |
| bursters | 10 | - | - |
| burstier | 10 | - | - |
| burstone | 10 | - | - |
| burthens | 13 | - | - |
| burweeds | 14 | - | - |
| busgirls | 11 | - | - |
| bushbaby | 20 | agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | - |
| bushbuck | 21 | antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns | - |
| busheled | 14 | - | - |
| busheler | 13 | - | - |
| bushfire | 16 | - | - |
| bushgoat | 14 | - | - |
| bushidos | 14 | - | - |
| bushiest | 13 | - | - |
| bushings | 14 | - | - |
| bushland | 14 | - | - |
| bushless | 13 | - | - |
| bushlike | 17 | - | - |
| bushlots | 13 | - | - |
| bushmeat | 15 | - | - |
| bushpigs | 16 | - | - |
| bushtits | 13 | - | - |
| bushveld | 17 | - | - |
| bushwahs | 19 | - | - |
| bushwalk | 20 | - | - |
| buskined | 15 | - | - |
| buskings | 15 | - | - |
| busloads | 11 | - | - |
| bussings | 11 | - | - |
| bustards | 11 | - | - |
| bustiers | 10 | - | - |
| bustiest | 10 | - | - |
| bustings | 11 | - | - |
| bustlers | 10 | - | - |
| bustline | 10 | - | - |
| busulfan | 13 | - | - |
| busuutis | 10 | - | - |
| busyness | 13 | the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity | they manifested all the busyness of a pack of beavers |
| busywork | 20 | active work of little value | while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork |
| butanoic | 12 | - | - |
| butanols | 10 | - | - |
| butanone | 10 | colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid | - |
| butchers | 15 | - | - |
| butchest | 15 | - | - |
| butching | 16 | - | - |
| butlered | 11 | - | - |
| butments | 12 | - | - |
| butsudan | 11 | - | - |
| buttered | 11 | - | - |
| butthead | 14 | - | - |
| buttling | 11 | - | - |
| buttoner | 10 | - | - |
| buttyman | 15 | - | - |
| buttymen | 15 | - | - |
| butylate | 13 | introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound | - |
| butylene | 13 | any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers | - |
| butyrals | 13 | - | - |
| butyrate | 13 | - | - |
| butyrins | 13 | - | - |
| butyrous | 13 | - | - |
| butyryls | 16 | - | - |
| buvettes | 13 | - | - |
| buxomest | 19 | - | - |
| buyables | 15 | - | - |
| buybacks | 21 | - | - |
| buzkashi | 26 | - | - |
| buzzards | 29 | - | - |
| buzzbait | 30 | - | - |
| buzzcuts | 30 | - | - |
| buzziest | 28 | - | - |
| buzzings | 29 | - | - |
| buzzkill | 32 | - | - |
| buzzsaws | 31 | - | - |
| buzzwigs | 32 | - | - |
