6-letter words containing b, u, r
- rhumba — a dance, Cuban in origin and complex in rhythm.
- robust — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- rouble — a silver or copper-alloy coin and monetary unit of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, equal to 100 kopecks.
- rub in — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rub up — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rubato — having certain notes arbitrarily lengthened while others are correspondingly shortened, or vice versa.
- rubbed — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rubber — (in certain card games, as bridge and whist)
- rubbia — Carlo [jahr-loh;; Italian kahr-law] /ˈdʒɑr loʊ;; Italian ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Italian physicist: Nobel prize 1984.
- rubble — broken bits and pieces of anything, as that which is demolished: Bombing reduced the town to rubble.
- rubbly — made or consisting of rubble.
- rubbra — (Charles) Edmund. 1901–86, English composer of works in a traditional idiom
- rubeba — a medieval fiddle similar to the rebec.
- rubefy — to make red, esp (of a counterirritant) to make the skin go red
- rubens — Douay Bible. Reuben (defs 1, 2).
- rubied — having a color like that of a ruby; deep red.
- rubier — a red variety of corundum, used as a gem.
- rubify — to make red; redden: a distant fire that rubified the sky.
- ruboff — an act of rubbing off, as to remove something.
- rubout — a murder or assassination.
- rubric — a title, heading, direction, or the like, in a manuscript, book, statute, etc., written or printed in red or otherwise distinguished from the rest of the text.
- rumble — to make a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound, as thunder.
- rumbly — attended with, making, or causing a rumbling sound.
- run by — If you run something by someone, you tell them about it or mention it, to see if they think it is a good idea, or can understand it.
- rurban — bringing together the urban and the rural
- scrubs — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- sorbus — a rowan or related tree
- suborn — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subpar — below an average, usual, or normal level, quality, or the like; below par: This month his performance has been subpar.
- subroc — a rocket that contains a nuclear depth charge and that can be launched underwater from a submarine torpedo tube.
- suburb — a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community.
- superb — admirably fine or excellent; extremely good: a superb performance.
- surbed — to lay (a stone) on edge, esp with reference to grain
- tabour — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- tanbur — tambura.
- tauber — Richard, 1892–1948, Austrian tenor, in England after 1940.
- tobruk — a small port in NE Libya, in E Cyrenaica on the Mediterranean coast road: scene of severe fighting in World War II: taken from the Italians by the British in Jan 1941, from the British by the Germans in June 1942, and finally taken by the British in Nov 1942
- trumbo — Dalton, 1905–76, U.S. novelist and screenwriter.
- tuebor — I will defend: motto on the coat of arms of Michigan.
- 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.
- turbid — not clear or transparent because of stirred-up sediment or the like; clouded; opaque; obscured: the turbid waters near the waterfall.
- turbit — one of a breed of domestic pigeons having a stout, roundish body, a short head and beak, and a ruffled breast and neck.
- turbo- — of, relating to, or driven by a turbine
- turbot — a European flatfish, Psetta maxima, having a diamond-shaped body: valued as a food fish.
- tyburn — a former place of public execution in London, England.
- uberty — abundance; fruitfulness
- umbery — resembling umber in colour
- umbrae — shade; shadow.
- umbral — shade; shadow.
- umbria — an ancient district in central and N Italy.