7-letter words containing b, u
- lobules — Plural form of lobule.
- lobulus — a lobule.
- lovebug — An insect, Plecia nearctica, the vern honeymoon fly.
- lowbush — Being, or coming from, a bush of low stature (used in names of certain fruits, such as lowbush blueberry and lowbush cranberry).
- lualaba — a river in the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo: a headstream of the Congo (Zaire) River. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- lubbers — Plural form of lubber.
- lubbock — Sir John, 1st Baron Avebury, 1834–1913, English author, natural scientist, and statesman.
- lubfish — a stockfish
- lullaby — a song used to lull a child to sleep; cradlesong.
- lumbago — pain in the lower, or lumbar, region of the back or loins, especially chronic or recurring pain.
- lumbang — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, the fruits of which yield tung oil
- lumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lumber.
- lumumba — Patrice (Emergy) [puh-trees em-er-zhee] /pəˈtris ˌɛm ɛrˈʒi/ (Show IPA), 1925–61, African political leader: premier of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1960–61.
- lyublin — Lublin.
- macumba — a Brazilian cult incorporating the use of fetishes and sorcery and deriving largely from African practices.
- man-bun — a man’s hair gathered into a bun at the back or top of the head.
- marabou — any of three large storks of the genus Leptoptilus, of Africa or the East Indies, having soft, downy feathers under the wings and tail that are used for making a furlike trimming for women's hats and garments.
- marburg — a city in central Germany.
- marybud — a bud of a marigold
- maybush — a flowering shrub, Crataegus monogyna, that is native to Europe, northwestern Africa and western Asia, and that produces small white flowers
- minibus — a small bus, seating about 15 passengers and typically transporting people short distances.
- minisub — a small submarine, holding only one or a few persons, used in naval operations, underwater exploration, or conducting underwater experiments.
- mitumba — used clothes imported for sale in African countries from more developed western countries
- moebius — August Ferdinand, Möbius, August Ferdinand.
- mowburn — the natural process of heating and fermenting that takes place when hay or corn is piled up when it is damp or green
- mubarak — (Mohammed) Hosni [hoz-nee,, hos-] /ˈhɒz ni,, ˈhɒs-/ (Show IPA), born 1928, Egyptian political leader: president 1981–2011.
- mud bug — a crayfish.
- mudbank — A bank of mud on the bed of a river or the bottom of the sea.
- mudbath — Alternative spelling of mud bath.
- mumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of mumble.
- mumbler — Agent noun of mumble; one who mumbles.
- mumbles — Plural form of mumble.
- murghob — a river in NE Afghanistan and SE Turkmenistan, flowing from the Hindu Kush W and NW to the Kara Kum Desert. 530 miles (853 km) long.
- mutable — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- mutably — In a mutable manner.
- myotube — a cylindrical cell found in muscle fibre
- nabucco — an opera by Verdi based on the biblical story of the Jews exiled from their homeland by Nebuchadnezzar
- naibour — Obsolete form of neighbour.
- nebulae — Astronomy. Also called diffuse nebula. a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Compare dark nebula, emission nebula, reflection nebula. (formerly) any celestial object that appears nebulous, hazy, or fuzzy, and extended in a telescope view.
- nebular — Astronomy. Also called diffuse nebula. a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Compare dark nebula, emission nebula, reflection nebula. (formerly) any celestial object that appears nebulous, hazy, or fuzzy, and extended in a telescope view.
- nebulas — Plural form of nebula.
- neibour — Obsolete form of neighbour.
- nelumbo — lotus (def 3).
- netbeui — NetBIOS Extended User Interface. The network transport protocol used by all of Microsoft's network systems and IBM's LAN Server based systems. NetBEUI is often confused with NetBIOS. NetBIOS is the applications programming interface and NetBEUI is the transport protocol.
- netburp — (networking, chat) (Or "netsplit") When netlag gets really bad, and delays between IRC servers exceed a certain threshhold, the network effectively becomes partitioned for a period of time, and large numbers of people seem to be signing off at the same time and then signing back on again when things get better. An instance of this is called a "netburp" (or, sometimes, netsplit).
- newburg — (of seafood) cooked with a cream sauce containing sherry: lobster Newburg.
- newbury — a market town in West Berkshire unitary authority, S England: scene of a Parliamentarian victory (1643) and a Royalist victory (1644) during the Civil War; telecommunications, racecourse. Pop: 32 675 (2001)
- niebuhr — Barthold Georg [bahr-tawlt gey-awrk] /ˈbɑr tɔlt geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1776–1831, German historian.
- niobium — a steel-gray metallic element resembling tantalum in its chemical properties; becomes a superconductor below 9 K; used chiefly in alloy steels. Symbol: Nb; atomic number: 41; atomic weight: 92.906; specific gravity: 8.4 at 20°C.
- niobous — Chemistry. containing trivalent niobium, as niobous chloride, NbCl 3 .