6-letter words containing b, u
- beflum — idle, deceptive, or cajoling speech
- befoul — to make dirty or foul; soil; defile
- beguin — a Beghard.
- begulf — to engulf or overwhelm
- begunk — a deceiving trick
- beirut — the capital of Lebanon, a port on the Mediterranean: part of the Ottoman Empire from the 16th century until 1918; many universities (including Lebanese, American, French, and Arab). Pop: 1 875 000 (2005 est)
- belaud — to praise highly
- beluga — a large white sturgeon, Acipenser (or Huso) huso, of the Black and Caspian Seas: a source of caviar and isinglass
- bemaul — to maul
- bemuse — If something bemuses you, it puzzles or confuses you.
- benaud — Richard, known as Richie. 1930–2015, Australian cricketer; played in 63 test matches, 28 as captain; an all-rounder, he was the first to score 2000 runs and take 200 wickets in tests; TV commentator on the sport for many decades
- bengbu — a city in E China, in Anhui province. Pop: 779 000 (2005 est)
- benumb — to make numb or powerless; deaden physical feeling in, as by cold
- bepuff — to puff up
- besmut — to blacken with smut
- bestud — to set with studs
- beulah — the land of Israel (Isaiah 62:4)
- beurre — butter
- bhikhu — a fully ordained Buddhist monk
- bhikku — a monk.
- bhungi — bhangi.
- bhutan — a kingdom in central Asia: disputed by Tibet, China, India, and Britain since the 18th century but most closely connected with India; contains inaccessible stretches of the E Himalayas in the north. Official language: Dzongka; Nepali is also spoken. Official religion: Mahayana Buddhist. Currencies: ngultrum and Indian rupee. Capital: Thimbu. Pop: 725 296 (2013 est). Area: about 46 600 sq km (18 000 sq miles)
- bhutto — Benazir (ˈbɛnəzɪə). (1953–2007), Pakistani stateswoman; prime minister of Pakistan (1988–90; 1993–96); deposed and subsequently defeated in elections in 1997; assassinated during the 2007 election campaign
- bibful — secret information (esp in the phrase spill a bibful)
- bid up — If someone bids up the value of something, they try to increase it, for example by offering to buy it at a higher price than usual.
- bid-up — the act or an instance of increasing the price of something by forcing the bidding upward.
- big up — to make important, prominent, or famous
- bignum — (programming) /big'nuhm/ (Originally from MIT MacLISP) A multiple-precision computer representation for very large integers. Most computer languages provide a type of data called "integer", but such computer integers are usually limited in size; usually they must be smaller than 2^31 (2,147,483,648) or (on a bitty box) 2^15 (32,768). If you want to work with numbers larger than that, you have to use floating-point numbers, which are usually accurate to only six or seven decimal places. Computer languages that provide bignums can perform exact calculations on very large numbers, such as 1000! (the factorial of 1000, which is 1000 times 999 times 998 times ... times 2 times 1). For example, this value for 1000! was computed by the MacLISP system using bignums: 40238726007709377354370243392300398571937486421071 46325437999104299385123986290205920442084869694048 00479988610197196058631666872994808558901323829669 94459099742450408707375991882362772718873251977950 59509952761208749754624970436014182780946464962910 56393887437886487337119181045825783647849977012476 63288983595573543251318532395846307555740911426241 74743493475534286465766116677973966688202912073791 43853719588249808126867838374559731746136085379534 52422158659320192809087829730843139284440328123155 86110369768013573042161687476096758713483120254785 89320767169132448426236131412508780208000261683151 02734182797770478463586817016436502415369139828126 48102130927612448963599287051149649754199093422215 66832572080821333186116811553615836546984046708975 60290095053761647584772842188967964624494516076535 34081989013854424879849599533191017233555566021394 50399736280750137837615307127761926849034352625200 01588853514733161170210396817592151090778801939317 81141945452572238655414610628921879602238389714760 88506276862967146674697562911234082439208160153780 88989396451826324367161676217916890977991190375403 12746222899880051954444142820121873617459926429565 81746628302955570299024324153181617210465832036786 90611726015878352075151628422554026517048330422614 39742869330616908979684825901254583271682264580665 26769958652682272807075781391858178889652208164348 34482599326604336766017699961283186078838615027946 59551311565520360939881806121385586003014356945272 24206344631797460594682573103790084024432438465657 24501440282188525247093519062092902313649327349756 55139587205596542287497740114133469627154228458623 77387538230483865688976461927383814900140767310446 64025989949022222176590433990188601856652648506179 97023561938970178600408118897299183110211712298459 01641921068884387121855646124960798722908519296819 37238864261483965738229112312502418664935314397013 74285319266498753372189406942814341185201580141233 44828015051399694290153483077644569099073152433278 28826986460278986432113908350621709500259738986355 42771967428222487575867657523442202075736305694988 25087968928162753848863396909959826280956121450994 87170124451646126037902930912088908694202851064018 21543994571568059418727489980942547421735824010636 77404595741785160829230135358081840096996372524230 56085590370062427124341690900415369010593398383577 79394109700277534720000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000.
- bijoux — a jewel.
- biniou — a small high-pitched Breton bagpipe
- birrus — a hooded cloak of coarse wool, a common article of apparel in the later Roman Empire.
- bisque — a thick rich soup made from shellfish
- bissau — a port on the Atlantic, the capital of Guinea-Bissau (until 1974 Portuguese Guinea). Pop: 369 000 (2005 est)
- biuret — a white crystalline substance, C 2 H 5 O 2 N 3 ⋅H 2 O, soluble in water and alcohol, used for the identification of urea, from which it is formed on heating.
- bivium — a part of an echinoderm, made up of a pair of ambulacra
- blague — pretentious but empty talk; nonsense
- blouse — A blouse is a kind of shirt worn by a girl or woman.
- blousy — like a blouse
- blowup — an explosion
- bludge — to scrounge from (someone)
- bluest — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- bluesy — If you describe a song or the way it is performed as bluesy, you mean that it is performed in a way that is characteristic of the blues.
- bluffs — good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
- bluidy — bloody
- bluing — a blue liquid, powder, etc. used in rinsing white fabrics to prevent yellowing
- bluish — Something that is bluish is slightly blue in colour.
- blunge — to mix (clay or a similar substance) with water in order to form a suspension for use in ceramics
- blurry — A blurry shape is one that has an unclear outline.
- bob up — to come up unexpectedly; appear suddenly
- bobrun — an ice-covered course for bobsledding consisting of a chute with high walls, banked turns, and straightaways.