7-letter words containing a, b, u, r
- bucardo — a recently extinct Spanish mountain goat
- buccaro — unglazed pottery.
- buckram — cotton or linen cloth stiffened with size, etc, used in lining or stiffening clothes, bookbinding, etc
- bugbear — Something or someone that is your bugbear worries or upsets you.
- bukhara — a city in S Uzbekistan. Pop: 299 000 (2005 est)
- bullary — a place where salt is prepared or boiled
- bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
- bum rap — a trumped-up or false charge
- bunraku — a Japanese form of puppet theatre in which the puppets are usually about four feet high, with moving features as well as limbs and each puppet is manipulated by up to three puppeteers who remain onstage
- bur oak — an E North American oak, Quercus macrocarpa, having fringed acorn cups and durable timber
- burbage — James. ?1530–97, English actor and theatre manager, who built (1576) the first theatre in England
- burbank — Luther1849-1926; U.S. horticulturist: bred numerous varieties of fruits, vegetables, & flowers
- burdash — a fringed sash worn over a coat
- bureaux — Bureaux is a plural form of bureau.
- burgage — (in England) tenure of land or tenement in a town or city, which originally involved a fixed money rent
- burghal — (in Scotland) an incorporated town having its own charter and some degree of political independence from the surrounding area.
- burglar — A burglar is a thief who enters a house or other building by force.
- burnaby — city in SW British Columbia, Canada; suburb of Vancouver: pop. 179,000
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- bursary — A bursary is a sum of money which is given to someone to allow them to study in a college or university.
- bursate — resembling or containing a bursa
- bursera — of or relating to the Bursera genus of gum trees
- bustard — any terrestrial bird of the family Otididae, inhabiting open regions of the Old World: order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc). They have long strong legs, a heavy body, a long neck, and speckled plumage
- butyral — a type of resin
- buzzard — A buzzard is a large bird of prey.
- cadbury — George. 1839–1922, British Quaker industrialist and philanthropist. He established, with his brother Richard Cadbury (1835–99), the chocolate-making company Cadbury Brothers and the garden village Bournville, near Birmingham, for their workers
- cardbus — (hardware) The 32-bit version of the PCMCIA (PC Card) bus.
- caribou — A caribou is a large north American deer.
- churban — the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, first by the Babylonians in 587 bc and again by the Romans in 70 ad
- corbeau — a blackish green colour
- corumba — a city in W Brazil.
- cudbear — a purple dye prepared from lichens
- cumbria — (since 1974) a county of NW England comprising the former counties of Westmorland and Cumberland together with N Lancashire: includes the Lake District mountain area and surrounding coastal lowlands with the Pennine uplands in the extreme east. Administrative centre: Carlisle. Pop: 489 800 (2003 est). Area: 6810 sq km (2629 sq miles)
- curable — If a disease or illness is curable, it can be cured.
- curably — In a curable manner.
- danbury — city in SW Conn., near Bridgeport: pop. 75,000
- daubers — Plural form of dauber.
- daubery — the act or an instance of daubing
- dobruja — a region in SE Romania and NE Bulgaria, between the Danube River and the Black Sea. 2970 sq. mi. (7690 sq. km).
- durable — able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- durably — In a durable manner.
- earbuds — Plural form of earbud.
- exurban — Of, pertaining to, or residing in an exurb.
- exurbia — The exurbs collectively ; the region beyond the suburbs.
- fabular — of or relating to a story, novel, or the like written in the form of a fable.
- fibular — Anatomy. the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg, extending from the knee to the ankle.
- furball — A ball of fur, especially one coughed up by a cat.
- garbure — a thick soup usually made with bacon, cabbage, and other vegetables, originally from Bearn in SW France
- goburra — The kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae).
- hamburg — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.