7-letter words containing b, u
- boucher — François (frɑ̃swa). 1703–70, French rococo artist, noted for his delicate ornamental paintings of pastoral scenes and mythological subjects
- bouchon — a supplementary, baize-covered top set in the center of a bouillotte table.
- bouclée — support for a cue in billiards using the hand
- boudoir — A boudoir is a woman's bedroom or private sitting room.
- boughed — having a bough or boughs (usually used in combination): golden-boughed elms.
- bouilli — a meat stew
- boulder — A boulder is a large rounded rock.
- boulter — a long, stout fishing line with several hooks attached.
- boulton — Matthew. 1728–1809, British engineer and manufacturer, who financed Watt's steam engine and applied it to various industrial purposes
- bouncer — A bouncer is a man who stands at the door of a club, prevents unwanted people from coming in, and makes people leave if they cause trouble.
- bounded — (of a set) having a bound, esp where a measure is defined in terms of which all the elements of the set, or the differences between all pairs of members, are less than some value, or else all its members lie within some other well-defined set
- bounden — morally obligatory (archaic except in the phrase bounden duty)
- bounder — If you call a man a bounder, you mean he behaves in an unkind, deceitful, or selfish way.
- bouquet — A bouquet is a bunch of flowers which is attractively arranged.
- bourbon — Bourbon is a type of whisky that is made mainly in America.
- bourder — a person who jests or jokes
- bourdon — a 16-foot organ stop of the stopped diapason type
- bourges — a city in central France. Pop: 72 480 (1999)
- bourget — a suburb of Paris: former airport, landing site for Charles A. Lindbergh, May 1927.
- bourkha — a loose garment covering the entire body and having a veiled opening for the eyes, worn by Muslim women.
- bourree — traditional French dance in fast duple time
- boursin — a brand of soft white creamy cheese, often flavoured with garlic
- boutade — an outburst; sally
- bouvier — a large powerful dog of a Belgian breed, having a rough shaggy coat: used esp for cattle herding and guarding
- bow out — If you bow out of something, you stop taking part in it.
- bowlful — The contents of a bowl can be referred to as a bowlful of something.
- box out — to block (an opponent) so as to prevent that player from getting a rebound
- boxhaul — to bring (a square-rigger) onto a new tack by backwinding the foresails and steering hard round
- brangus — one of an American breed of cattle developed from Brahman and Aberdeen Angus stock, bred to withstand a hot climate.
- braudel — ˈFernand Paul (fɛʀˈnɑ̃ pɔl) ; fernänˈ p^ōl) 1902-85; Fr. historian
- bravura — If you say that someone is doing something with bravura, you mean that they are using unnecessary extra actions that emphasize their skill or importance.
- bravure — Music. a florid passage or piece requiring great skill and spirit in the performer.
- breakup — The breakup of a marriage, relationship, or association is the act of it finishing or coming to an end because the people involved decide that it is not working successfully.
- breslau — Wrocław
- brew up — If someone brews up or if they brew up some tea, they make tea by pouring hot water over tea leaves.
- brewpub — a pub that incorporates a brewery on its premises
- brimful — Someone who is brimful of an emotion or quality feels or seems full of it. An object or place that is brimful of something is full of it.
- briquet — briquette.
- brisure — a mark of cadency in heraldry
- broadus — something given as a bonus; lagniappe.
- brotula — any of several chiefly deep-sea fishes of the family Brotulidae.
- brought — Brought is the past tense and past participle of bring.
- brouter — A device which bridges some packets (i.e. forwards based on data link layer information) and routes other packets (i.e. forwards based on network layer information). The bridge/route decision is based on configuration information.
- brouwer — Adriaen [ah-dree-ahn] /ˈɑ driˌɑn/ (Show IPA), 1606?–38, Flemish painter.
- brubeck — Dave. 1920–2012, US modern jazz pianist and composer; formed his own quartet in 1951
- bruchid — any of a genus of small, often parasitic, beetles
- brucine — bitter poisonous alkaloid resembling strychnine and obtained from the tree Strychnos nuxvomica: used mainly in the denaturation of alcohol. Formula: C23H26N2O4
- brucite — the mineral form of magnesium hydroxide, translucent and white or pale green in colour
- bruckle — brittle, fragile
- bruegel — Jan (jɑn ) ; yän) 1568-1625; Fl. painter: son of Pieter