5-letter words containing b, u, r
- burnt — Burnt is a past tense and past participle of burn.
- buron — a public official perceived to be a hindrance to enterprise
- buroo — the government office from which unemployment benefit is distributed
- burpy — belching, tending to belch, or feeling like belching: Carbonated beverages make me burpy.
- burqa — A burqa is a long garment that covers the head and body and is traditionally worn by women in Islamic countries.
- burra — Edward (John). 1905–76, British painter, noted esp for his depiction of squalid and grotesque subjects
- burro — a donkey, esp one used as a pack animal
- burry — full of or covered in burs
- bursa — a small fluid-filled sac that reduces friction between movable parts of the body, esp at joints
- burse — a flat case used at Mass as a container for the corporal
- burst — If something bursts or if you burst it, it suddenly breaks open or splits open and the air or other substance inside it comes out.
- busra — Basra.
- buyer — A buyer is a person who is buying something or who intends to buy it.
- courb — curved or rounded
- crumb — Crumbs are tiny pieces that fall from bread, biscuits, or cake when you cut it or eat it.
- cuber — a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.
- curbs — Plural form of curb.
- debur — to remove burs from (a piece of machined metal)
- drubs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drub.
- exurb — A district outside a city, especially a prosperous area beyond the suburbs.
- fubar — not working; completely messed up; bungled; confused.
- gebur — a tenant farmer
- grubs — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- iburg — A program by Christopher W. Fraser <[email protected]>, David R. Hanson <[email protected]> and Todd A. Proebsting <[email protected]> that generates a fast tree parser. Iburg is compatible with Burg. Both programs accept a cost-augmented tree grammar and emit a C program that discovers an optimal parse of trees in the language described by the grammar. They have been used to construct fast optimal instruction selectors for use in code generation. Burg uses BURS. Iburg's matchers do dynamic programming at compile time.
- irbus — IrDA Control
- krubi — a plant of the arum family, Amorphophallus titanium, that has an unpleasant smell and produces the largest known unbranched flower
- lubra — an Aborigine girl or woman.
- nurbs — Non-Uniform Rational B Spline
- rebus — a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols, etc., that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables: Two gates and a head is a rebus for Gateshead.
- rebut — to refute by evidence or argument.
- rebuy — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- redub — to fix or repair
- rhumb — rhumb line.
- robus — Hugo, 1885–1963, U.S. sculptor.
- rubai — a verse form of Persian origin consisting of four-line stanzas
- rubby — rubbing alcohol, esp when mixed with cheap wine for drinking
- ruben — Douay Bible. Reuben (defs 1, 2).
- ruble — a silver or copper-alloy coin and monetary unit of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, equal to 100 kopecks.
- rubus — a fruit-bearing genus of shrubs including raspberries and blackberries
- rugby — a city in E Warwickshire, in central England.
- rumba — a dance, Cuban in origin and complex in rhythm.
- rumbo — a rum-based cocktail
- scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- shrub — any of various acidulated beverages made from the juice of fruit, sugar, and other ingredients, often including alcohol.
- slurb — a shabby, ill-planned suburban area.
- suber — cork (def 6).
- tibur — ancient name of Tivoli.
- tuber — a person or thing that forms, installs, or operates with tubes.
- turbo — turbine.
- uber- — Uber combines with nouns and adjectives to form nouns and adjectives that refer to a great or extreme example of something.