7-letter words containing g, u, b
- bug out — to depart hurriedly; run away; retreat
- bugaboo — Something or someone that is your bugaboo worries or upsets you.
- bugaloo — a fast dance of Afro-American origin, performed by couples and characterized by dancing apart and moving the body in short, quick movements to the beat of the music.
- buganda — a region of Uganda: a powerful Bantu kingdom from the 17th century
- bugatti — Ettore (Arco Isidoro) (ˈɛttore). 1881–1947, Italian car manufacturer; founder of the Bugatti car factory at Molsheim (1909)
- bugayev — Boris Nikolayevich [bawr-is nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, ˈboʊr-,, ˌbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Bely, Andrei.
- bugbane — any of several ranunculaceous plants of the genus Cimicifuga, esp C. foetida of Europe, whose flowers are reputed to repel insects
- bugbear — Something or someone that is your bugbear worries or upsets you.
- bugeyed — with bulging eyes, as from surprise or wonderment; astonished.
- bugfoot — Loch Ness Monster Bug
- buggery — Buggery is anal intercourse.
- bugging — surveillance using a hidden microphone
- bugloss — any of various hairy Eurasian boraginaceous plants of the genera Anchusa, Lycopsis, and Echium, esp L. arvensis, having clusters of blue flowers
- bugseed — any tumbleweed of the genus Corispermum, native to North America and Eurasia and found in fields and areas of wasteland
- bugshah — (formerly) an aluminum-copper coin and monetary unit of the Yemen Arab Republic, the 40th part of a riyal.
- bulging — a rounded projection, bend, or protruding part; protuberance; hump: a bulge in a wall.
- bulkage — any agent that aids peristalsis by increasing the bulk of material in the intestine
- bulking — the expansion of excavated material to a volume greater than that of the excavation from which it came
- bulldog — A bulldog is a small dog with a large square head and short hair.
- bulling — the male of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction.
- 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.
- bumming — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bumping — to come more or less violently in contact with; collide with; strike: His car bumped a truck.
- 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.
- bunting — Bunting consists of rows of small coloured flags that are used to decorate streets and buildings on special occasions.
- buoyage — a system of buoys
- 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.
- burbage — James. ?1530–97, English actor and theatre manager, who built (1576) the first theatre in England
- 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
- burghal — (in Scotland) an incorporated town having its own charter and some degree of political independence from the surrounding area.
- burgher — The burghers of a town or city are the people who live there, especially the richer or more respectable people.
- burglar — A burglar is a thief who enters a house or other building by force.
- burking — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
- burning — You use burning to describe something that is extremely hot.
- burring — a pronunciation of the r- sound as a uvular trill, as in certain Northern English dialects.
- busgirl — a waiter's assistant
- bushing — an adaptor having ends of unequal diameters, often with internal screw threads, used to connect pipes of different sizes
- bushpig — a wild pig, Potamochoerus porcus, inhabiting forests in tropical Africa and Madagascar. It is brown or black, with pale markings on the face
- busking — Chiefly British. to entertain by dancing, singing, or reciting on the street or in a public place.
- bussing — a large motor vehicle, having a long body, equipped with seats or benches for passengers, usually operating as part of a scheduled service; omnibus.
- busying — actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime: busy with her work.
- butting — a push or blow with the head or horns.
- buzzing — a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
- buzzwig — a bushy wig