6-letter words containing b, u, o
- box up — to keep in; surround or confine
- boxful — the contents of a box or the amount a box can contain
- brogue — If someone has a brogue, they speak English with a strong accent, especially Irish or Scots.
- brotus — broadus.
- brough — broch.
- brulot — a biting crane fly
- bruton — John Gerard. born 1947, Irish politician: leader of the Fine Gael party (1990–2001); prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1994–97)
- buboes — an inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland, especially in the groin or armpit.
- buffon — Georges Louis Leclerc (ʒɔrʒ lwi ləklɛr), Comte de. 1707–88, French encyclopedist of natural history; principal author of Histoire naturelle (36 vols., 1749–89), containing the Époques de la nature (1777), which foreshadowed later theories of evolution
- bugboy — an apprentice jockey.
- bugong — bogong.
- bugout — act of running away
- bunion — A bunion is a large painful lump on the first joint of a person's big toe.
- bunton — one of a number of struts reinforcing the walls of a shaft and dividing it into vertical compartments.
- buoyed — Nautical. a distinctively shaped and marked float, sometimes carrying a signal or signals, anchored to mark a channel, anchorage, navigational hazard, etc., or to provide a mooring place away from the shore.
- burbot — a freshwater gadoid food fish, Lota lota, that has barbels around its mouth and occurs in Europe, Asia, and North America
- burgoo — porridge
- burgos — a city in N Spain, in Old Castile: cathedral. Pop: 169 317 (2003 est)
- burrow — A burrow is a tunnel or hole in the ground that is dug by an animal such as a rabbit.
- burton — a kind of light hoisting tackle
- busboy — waiter's assistant
- busoni — Ferruccio Benvenuto (fɛʀˈʀutˌtʃɔ bɛnvɛˈnutɔ) ; ferro̅otˈch^ō benˌveno̅oˈt^ō) 1866-1924; It. composer
- button — Buttons are small hard objects sewn on to shirts, coats, or other pieces of clothing. You fasten the clothing by pushing the buttons through holes called buttonholes.
- buxton — a town in N England, in NW Derbyshire in the Peak District: thermal springs. Pop: 20 836 (2001)
- buyoff — a purchase
- buyout — A buyout is the buying of a company, especially by its managers or employees.
- cobnut — filbert
- coburg — a rounded loaf with a cross cut on the top
- cu-bop — music of the 1940s in which Cuban rhythms are combined with bop
- cuboid — A cuboid is a solid object with two square surfaces and four rectangular surfaces. Each surface of a cuboid is the same size as the one opposite to it.
- dobuan — Dobu.
- dobule — (archaic) A fish, the European dace.
- dorbug — a name given to various types of beetle
- double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- doubly — to a double measure or degree: to be doubly cautious.
- doubts — Plural form of doubt.
- dubois — (Marie) Eugène (François Thomas) [ma-ree œ-zhen frahn-swa taw-mah] /maˈri œˈʒɛn frɑ̃ˈswa tɔˈmɑ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1941, Dutch physical anthropologist and anatomist.
- dumbos — Plural form of dumbo.
- erbout — Eye dialect of about.
- euboea — an island in the W Aegean Sea: the largest island after Crete of the Greek archipelago; linked with the mainland by a bridge across the Euripus channel. Capital: Chalcis. Pop: 198 130 (2001). Area: 3908 sq km (1509 sq miles)
- globus — any spherelike structure
- gumbos — Plural form of gumbo.
- huambo — a city in central Angola.
- joburg — Johannesburg
- jumbos — Plural form of jumbo.
- kabuto — A traditional Japanese military helmet.
- korbut — Olga, born 1955, Russian gymnast.
- labour — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- lobule — a small lobe.
- lumbo- — loin