6-letter words containing b, u
- erbium — The chemical element of atomic number 68, a soft silvery-white metal of the lanthanide series.
- erbout — Eye dialect of about.
- erebus — the god of darkness, son of Chaos and brother of Night
- 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)
- exurbs — Plural form of exurb.
- fabius — (full name Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus) died 203 b.c.; Rom. general & statesman: defeated Hannibal in the second Punic War by a cautious strategy of delay and avoidance of direct encounter
- fansub — the subtitling of foreign, esp animated, films by fans
- fibula — Anatomy. the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg, extending from the knee to the ankle.
- fubbed — fob2 .
- fumble — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
- globus — any spherelike structure
- gnu bc — A GNU version of BC which is self-contained and internally executes its own compiled code rather than acting as a front-end to DC like the standard Unix bc. Version 1.02 parser (yacc), interpreter, BC math library Philip A. Nelson <[email protected]> FTP bc-1.02.tar.Z from a GNU archive site. requires: vsprintf and vfprintf routines ports: Unix (BSD, System V, MINIX, POSIX) Superset of POSIX BC (P10003.2/D11), with a POSIX-only mode.
- grubby — dirty; slovenly: children with grubby faces and sad eyes.
- gubbah — a white person.
- gubbed — Simple past tense and past participle of gub.
- gumbos — Plural form of gumbo.
- habiru — a nomadic people mentioned in Assyro-Babylonian literature: possibly the early Hebrews.
- hagbut — harquebus.
- hecuba — Classical Mythology. the wife of Priam.
- huambo — a city in central Angola.
- hubbed — the central part of a wheel, as that part into which the spokes are inserted.
- hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
- hubbly — of uneven surface; rough: hubbly ice; a hubbly road.
- hubbub — a loud, confused noise, as of many voices: There was quite a hubbub in the auditorium after the announcement.
- hubcap — a removable cover for the center area of the exposed side of an automobile wheel, covering the axle.
- hubert — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “mind” and “bright.”.
- hubnet — (networking) A 50 Mb/s optical fibre network developed at Toronto University. Network topology is a rooted tree with a maximum of 65536 hosts with maximum separation of 2 km. The protocol is multiple access, collision avoidance, echo detect and retry.
- hubrid — Lb rare Exhibiting excessive pride, presumption or arrogance: Hubristic.
- hubris — excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
- humber — an estuary of the Ouse and Trent rivers in E England. 37 miles (60 km) long.
- humble — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humbly — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
- iambus — iamb.
- ibague — a city in W central Colombia.
- ibycus — flourished c540 b.c, Greek poet.
- imbrue — to stain: He refused to imbrue his hands with the blood of more killing.
- imbued — to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.: The new political leader was imbued with the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
- imbues — to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.: The new political leader was imbued with the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
- in bud — at the stage of producing buds
- incubi — an imaginary demon or evil spirit supposed to descend upon sleeping persons, especially one fabled to have sexual intercourse with women during their sleep. Compare succubus (def 1).
- iturbi — José, 1895–1980, U.S. pianist, conductor, and composer; born in Spain.
- jabiru — a large stork, Jabiru mycteria, of the warmer regions of the New World.
- jabrud — a Paleolithic site in SW Syria, in the Anti-Lebanon mountain range.
- jambul — An evergreen tropical tree, Syzygium cumini.
- jibuti — Formerly French Somaliland, French Territory of the Afars and Issas. a republic in E Africa, on the Gulf of Aden: a former overseas territory of France; gained independence 1977. 8492 sq. mi. (21,994 sq. km). Capital: Djibouti.
- joburg — Johannesburg
- jubate — covered with long hairs resembling a mane.
- jubbah — a long outer garment with long sleeves, worn in Muslim countries.
- jubbly — (slang) female breast.