7-letter words containing a, b, u
- 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
- bushman — A Bushman is an aboriginal person from the southwestern part of Africa, especially the Kalahari desert region.
- bushwah — rubbishy nonsense; baloney; bull: You'll hear a lot of boring bushwa about his mechanical skill.
- busload — A busload of people is a large number of passengers on a bus.
- 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
- butanol — a colourless substance existing in four isomeric forms. The three liquid isomers are used as solvents for resins, lacquers, etc, and in the manufacture of organic compounds. Formula: C4H9OH
- buttals — the boundary lines of a piece of land
- butyral — a type of resin
- buyable — available to be bought
- buyback — an agreement to buy something in return, as by a supplier to buy its customer's product
- buzukia — bouzouki.
- buzzard — A buzzard is a large bird of prey.
- buzzsaw — A buzzsaw is an electric saw consisting of a round metal disk with a sharp serrated edge. It is powered by an electric motor and is used for cutting wood and other materials.
- 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
- calumba — the root of the Mozambiquan plant Jateorhiza columba, used as an aid to digestion and as a mild tonic
- cambium — a meristem that increases the girth of stems and roots by producing additional xylem and phloem
- can but — can only
- cardbus — (hardware) The 32-bit version of the PCMCIA (PC Card) bus.
- caribou — A caribou is a large north American deer.
- cattabu — a cross between common cattle and a zebu
- chabouk — a long horse-whip, also used for inflicting punishment
- chiluba — Frederick, 1943–2011, president of Zambia 1991–2002.
- churban — the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, first by the Babylonians in 587 bc and again by the Romans in 70 ad
- cimabue — Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). ?1240–?1302, Italian painter of the Florentine school, who anticipated the movement, led by Giotto, away from the Byzantine tradition in art towards a greater naturalism
- clubman — a man who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- cluebat — (computing slang) A bat (club) with which someone clueless is (figuratively or in one's imagination) struck.
- columba — as in Alpha Columbae. a small constellation in the S hemisphere south of Orion
- corbeau — a blackish green colour
- corumba — a city in W Brazil.
- cubbena — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- cubical — of or related to volume
- cubital — of or relating to the forearm
- cudbear — a purple dye prepared from lichens
- cueball — the ball a player strikes with the cue, as distinguished from the other balls on the table.
- cumbias — Plural form of cumbia.
- 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.
- cutback — A cutback is a reduction that is made in something.
- cutbank — the outer, steeper bank of a bend or meander in a river or stream
- danbury — city in SW Conn., near Bridgeport: pop. 75,000
- databus — the electrical pathway used to transfer data between components of a computer
- daubers — Plural form of dauber.
- daubery — the act or an instance of daubing