5-letter words containing b, u, s
- doubs — a river in E France, flowing into the Saône River. About 260 miles (420 km) long.
- drubs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drub.
- dubbs — Plural form of dubb.
- dubos — René Jules [ruh-ney joolz;; French ruh-ney zhyl] /rəˈneɪ dʒulz;; French rəˈneɪ ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1901–82, U.S. bacteriologist, born in France: early advocate of ecological concern.
- dumbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dumb.
- embus — To put (troops) onto a bus.
- flubs — a blunder.
- fubsy — short and stout.
- gibus — opera hat.
- grubs — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- irbus — IrDA Control
- jebus — an ancient Canaanite city taken by David: it later became Jerusalem.
- jubes — Plural form of jube.
- knubs — Waste silk formed when winding off the threads from a cocoon.
- lobus — a lobe.
- lubes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lube.
- nubus — The proprietary expansion bus used on Apple Macintosh personal computers.
- numbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numb.
- nurbs — Non-Uniform Rational B Spline
- pubes — the lower part of the abdomen, especially the region between the right and left iliac regions.
- pubis — that part of either innominate bone that, with the corresponding part of the other, forms the front of the pelvis.
- 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.
- robus — Hugo, 1885–1963, U.S. sculptor.
- rubus — a fruit-bearing genus of shrubs including raspberries and blackberries
- sauba — a South American ant, Ecodoma cephalotes, known for defoliating trees and carrying the leaves into underground nests
- scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scuba — a portable breathing device for free-swimming divers, consisting of a mouthpiece joined by hoses to one or two tanks of compressed air that are strapped on the back.
- sebum — the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands.
- shlub — zhlob.
- shrub — any of various acidulated beverages made from the juice of fruit, sugar, and other ingredients, often including alcohol.
- sibiu — a city in central Romania.
- slurb — a shabby, ill-planned suburban area.
- smbus — System Management Bus
- squab — a nestling pigeon, marketed when fully grown but still unfledged.
- squib — a short and witty or sarcastic saying or writing.
- subah — a province in the Mogul empire
- suber — cork (def 6).
- subha — a string of beads used in praying and meditating
- subj. — subject
- sumba — one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, in Indonesia, S of Flores. 4306 sq. mi. (11,153 sq. km).
- tsuba — a sword guard of a Japanese sword
- usbeg — Uzbek.
- usbek — Uzbek.
- uskub — Turkish name of Skoplje.
- zebus — Plural form of zebu.