6-letter words containing b, n, u
- subnet — the abstraction, in topology, of a subsequence.
- suborn — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- sunbed — Chiefly British. tanning bed.
- sunbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors like a rainbow, appearing in the spray of cataracts, waterfalls, fountains, etc.
- tanbur — tambura.
- tubing — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- tubman — a barrister in the Court of Exchequer who had precedence in motions over every other barrister except the postman.
- turban — a man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.
- tyburn — a former place of public execution in London, England.
- u-bend — pipe
- ubangi — French Oubangi. a river in W central Africa, forming part of the boundary between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, flowing W and S into the Congo (Zaire) River. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- ubuntu — humanity or fellow feeling; kindness
- unable — lacking the necessary power, competence, etc., to accomplish some specified act: He was unable to swim.
- unbale — to remove from a bale or tightly bound package
- unbare — exposed or laid bare
- unbark — to strip of bark
- unbear — to release (a horse) from the bearing rein; to loosen the bearing rein on (a horse)
- unbelt — to remove the belt from.
- unbend — to straighten from a bent form or position.
- unbent — simple past tense and past participle of unbend.
- unbias — to free from prejudice or bias
- unbind — to release from bonds or restraint, as a prisoner; free.
- unbitt — to unfasten or remove (a cable) from the bitts of a ship
- unbold — not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring: a bold hero.
- unbolt — to open (a door, window, etc.) by or as if by removing a bolt; unlock; unfasten.
- unbone — to remove the bones from (fish, meat, etc); debone
- unboot — to remove the boots (from)
- unbore — unborn
- unborn — not yet born; yet to come; future: unborn generations.
- unbred — not taught or trained.
- unbury — to dig up (that which was buried); unearth
- unbusy — not busy; idle; unoccupied
- uncurb — to remove curbs or restraints from (a horse)
- unrobe — to undress
- untomb — to exhume; to remove from a tomb; to disentomb (literally or figuratively)
- upbind — to bind up
- urbana — a city in E Illinois, adjoining Champaign.
- urbane — having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities: an urbane manner.
- vauban — Sébastien le Prestre de [sey-bas-tyan luh pre-truh duh] /seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ lə ˈprɛ trə də/ (Show IPA), 1633–1707, French military engineer and marshal.
- woburn — a city in E Massachusetts, N of Boston.
- ynambu — a medium-sized S American bird, Rhynchotus rufescens