7-letter words containing a, b, u
- bash up — If someone bashes you up, they attack you violently and injure you.
- bashful — Someone who is bashful is shy and easily embarrassed.
- basques — Plural form of basque.
- bat out — to create or compose quickly or hastily
- bateaux — Also, batteau. Nautical. Chiefly Canadian and Southern U.S.. a small, flat-bottomed rowboat used on rivers. a half-decked, sloop-rigged boat used for fishing on Chesapeake Bay; skipjack. (in some regions) a scow.
- bateful — (obsolete) Exciting contention; contentious.
- bathtub — A bathtub is a long, usually rectangular container which you fill with water and sit in to wash your body.
- batteau — bateau (def 1).
- batture — A sea bed or a river bed that has been raised or elevated.
- battuta — a beat used to measure time
- battute — a beat.
- battuto — a selection of chopped herbs, used in Italian cookery
- batuque — a Brazilian round dance of African origin.
- baubles — a showy, usually cheap, ornament; trinket; gewgaw.
- bauchle — an old worn shoe
- bauhaus — a German school of architecture and applied arts founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius on experimental principles of functionalism and truth to materials. After being closed by the Nazis in 1933, its ideas were widely disseminated by its students and staff, including Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger, Moholy-Nagy, and Mies van der Rohe
- baulked — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- baulker — Someone who baulks.
- bausond — (of animals) dappled with white spots on a black or bay background; esp having a white patch on the face
- bautzen — a town in E Germany, in Saxony: site of an indecisive battle in 1813 between Napoleon's army and an allied army of Russians and Prussians. Pop: 42 160 (2003 est)
- bauxite — Bauxite is a clay-like substance from which aluminium is obtained.
- bay rum — an aromatic liquid, used in medicines and cosmetics, originally obtained by distilling the leaves of the bayberry tree (Pimenta racemosa) with rum: now also synthesized from alcohol, water, and various oils
- bear up — If you bear up when experiencing problems, you remain cheerful and show courage in spite of them.
- bearhug — to give someone a bear hug
- beat up — If someone beats a person up, they hit or kick the person many times.
- beat-up — Informal. dilapidated; in poor condition from use: a beat-up old jalopy.
- beauish — vain and showy
- beautie — Obsolete spelling of beauty.
- because — You use because when stating the reason for something.
- becuase — Misspelling of because.
- bedaubs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedaub.
- belarus — a republic in E Europe; part of the medieval Lithuanian and Polish empires before being occupied by Russia; a Soviet republic (1919–91); in 1997 formed a close political and economic union with Russia: mainly low-lying and forested. Languages: Belarussian; Russian. Religion: believers are mostly Christian. Currency: rouble. Capital: Minsk. Pop: 9 625 888 (2013 est). Area: 207 600 sq km (80 134 sq miles)
- belgaum — a city in India, in Karnataka: cotton, furniture, leather. Pop: 399 600 (2001)
- belukha — a twin-peaked mountain in S central Russia, near the border of Kazakhstan: highest peak in the Altai Mountains. 15,157 feet (4620 meters).
- berceau — an arched trellis for climbing plants
- bermuda — a UK Overseas Territory consisting of a group of over 150 coral islands (the Bermudas) in the NW Atlantic: discovered in about 1503, colonized by the British by 1612, although not acquired by the British crown until 1684. Capital: Hamilton. Pop: 69 467 (2013 est). Area: 53 sq km (20 sq miles)
- besague — a plate protecting an open area, as at the elbow or armpit.
- bidault — Georges (ʒɔːrʒ). 1899–1983, French statesman; prime minister (1946, 1949–50). His opposition to Algerian independence led him to support the OAS: he was charged with treason (1963) and fled abroad
- bijapur — an ancient city in W India, in N Mysore: capital of a former kingdom, which fell at the end of the 17th century: cotton. Pop: 245 946 (2001)
- bivouac — A bivouac is a temporary camp made by soldiers or mountain climbers.
- blanqui — Louis Auguste (French lwi oɡyst). 1805–81, French revolutionary, who organized secret socialist societies and preached violent insurrection; he spent over 30 years in prison
- blaubok — a large blue-haired antelope, Hippotragus leucophaeus, of southern Africa: extinct since 1800
- bleaunt — a short tunic or blouse, worn in the Middle Ages.
- blu-ray — Blu-Ray is a type of video disk that is used for storing large amounts of high quality digital information.
- bluejay — a common North American jay, Cyanocitta cristata, having bright blue plumage with greyish-white underparts
- boatful — an amount or number that could be carried by a boat
- boileau — Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). full name Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux. 1636–1711, French poet and critic; author of satires, epistles, and L'Art poétique (1674), in which he laid down the basic principles of French classical literature
- bonasus — a name for the wisent or European bison (Bison bonasus)
- borlaug — Norman (Ernest). 1914–2009, US agronomist, who bred new strains of high-yielding cereal crops for use in developing countries. Nobel peace prize 1970
- bourkha — a loose garment covering the entire body and having a veiled opening for the eyes, worn by Muslim women.