7-letter words containing b, u
- bullpen — In baseball, a bullpen is an area alongside the playing field, where pitchers can practice or warm up.
- bulrush — a grasslike cyperaceous marsh plant, Scirpus lacustris, used for making mats, chair seats, etc
- bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
- bum bag — A bum bag consists of a small bag attached to a belt which you wear round your waist. You use it to carry things such as money and keys.
- bum boy — a person who assumes the passive role in anal intercourse
- bum out — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bum rap — a trumped-up or false charge
- bum-out — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bumbaze — to confuse; bewilder
- bumbler — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bumboat — any small boat used for ferrying supplies or goods for sale to a ship at anchor or at a mooring
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- bumfuck — a remote or insignificant place
- bummalo — Bombay duck.
- bumming — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bummock — a submerged mass of ice projecting downwards
- bump up — If you bump up an amount, you increase it suddenly, usually by a lot.
- bumping — to come more or less violently in contact with; collide with; strike: His car bumped a truck.
- bumpkin — If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.
- bumpoff — murder.
- bumster — (of trousers) cut low so as to reveal the top part of the buttocks
- bunbury — to create a fictitious scenario that provides an excuse for avoiding unwanted engagements
- bunched — a connected group; cluster: a bunch of grapes.
- bunches — a hairstyle in which hair is tied into two sections on either side of the head at the back
- bundies — a time clock.
- bundist — a member of a bund
- bundled — (of hardware or software) sold together, as a package, rather than separately.
- bundook — (in India) a rifle
- bung up — a stopper for the opening of a cask.
- bungest — out of order; broken; unusable.
- bungled — to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch: He bungled the job.
- bungler — A bungler is a person who often fails to do things properly because they make mistakes or are clumsy.
- bunking — a built-in platform bed, as on a ship.
- bunnies — Informal. a rabbit, especially a small or young one.
- bunraku — a Japanese form of puppet theatre in which the puppets are usually about four feet high, with moving features as well as limbs and each puppet is manipulated by up to three puppeteers who remain onstage
- bunting — Bunting consists of rows of small coloured flags that are used to decorate streets and buildings on special occasions.
- bunuelo — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- buoyage — a system of buoys
- buoyant — If you are in a buoyant mood, you feel cheerful and behave in a lively way.
- buoying — Nautical. a distinctively shaped and marked float, sometimes carrying a signal or signals, anchored to mark a channel, anchorage, navigational hazard, etc., or to provide a mooring place away from the shore.
- bur oak — an E North American oak, Quercus macrocarpa, having fringed acorn cups and durable timber
- burbage — James. ?1530–97, English actor and theatre manager, who built (1576) the first theatre in England
- burbank — Luther1849-1926; U.S. horticulturist: bred numerous varieties of fruits, vegetables, & flowers
- burdash — a fringed sash worn over a coat
- burdock — a coarse weedy Eurasian plant of the genus Arctium, having large heart-shaped leaves, tiny purple flowers surrounded by hooked bristles, and burlike fruits: family Asteraceae (composites)
- bureaux — Bureaux is a plural form of bureau.
- burette — a graduated glass tube with a stopcock on one end for dispensing and transferring known volumes of fluids, esp liquids
- burgage — (in England) tenure of land or tenement in a town or city, which originally involved a fixed money rent
- burgeon — If something burgeons, it grows or develops rapidly.
- burgess — a citizen or freeman of a borough