7-letter words containing i, b
- bullitt — William C(hristian) 1891–1967, U.S. diplomat and journalist.
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- 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.
- bumpkin — If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.
- bundies — a time clock.
- bundist — a member of a bund
- bunking — a built-in platform bed, as on a ship.
- bunnies — Informal. a rabbit, especially a small or young one.
- bunting — Bunting consists of rows of small coloured flags that are used to decorate streets and buildings on special occasions.
- 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.
- burking — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
- burkini — a swimming costume which covers the whole body with the exception of the face, hands, and feet, suitable for wear by Muslim women
- burkite — burker; murderer
- burlily — in burly fashion
- burn in — to darken (areas on a photographic print) by exposing them to light while masking other regions
- burn-in — 1. (hardware) screen saver. 2. (hardware, testing) burn-in period.
- burning — You use burning to describe something that is extremely hot.
- burnish — To burnish the image of someone or something means to improve their image.
- burring — a pronunciation of the r- sound as a uvular trill, as in certain Northern English dialects.
- burrito — A burrito is a tortilla containing a filling of ground beef, chicken, cheese, or beans.
- burundi — a republic in E central Africa: inhabited chiefly by the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa (Pygmy); made part of German East Africa in 1899; part of the Belgian territory of Ruanda-Urundi from 1923 until it became independent in 1962; ethnic violence has erupted at times between Hutu and Tutsi, as in Rwanda; consists mainly of high plateaus along the main Nile-Congo dividing range, dropping rapidly to the Great Rift Valley in the west. Official languages: Kirundi and French. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: Burundi franc. Capital: Bujumbura. Pop: 10 888 321 (2013 est). Area: 27 731 sq km (10 707 sq miles)
- busgirl — a waiter's assistant
- bush it — to camp out in the bush
- bushido — the feudal code of the Japanese samurai, stressing self-discipline, courage and loyalty
- bushing — an adaptor having ends of unequal diameters, often with internal screw threads, used to connect pipes of different sizes
- bushire — a port in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf; nuclear power station. Pop: 166 000 (2005 est)
- bushism — any apparently fatuous statement attributed to George W. Bush
- bushpig — a wild pig, Potamochoerus porcus, inhabiting forests in tropical Africa and Madagascar. It is brown or black, with pale markings on the face
- bushtit — any small grey active North American songbird of the genus Psaltriparus, such as P. minimus (common bushtit): family Paridae (titmice)
- busiest — actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime: busy with her work.
- 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.
- bustier — A bustier is a type of close-fitting strapless top worn by women.
- busuuti — a long garment with short sleeves and a square neckline, worn by Ugandan women, esp in S Uganda
- busying — actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime: busy with her work.
- butlins — one of the two best-known traditional holiday camps in Britain
- butt in — If you say that someone is butting in, you are criticizing the fact that they are joining in a conversation or activity without being asked to.
- butting — a push or blow with the head or horns.
- butyric — of or obtained from butter
- butyrin — a colourless liquid ester or oil found in butter. It is formed from butyric acid and glycerine
- buzukia — bouzouki.
- buzz in — to admit (someone) to a building by activating an electronically controlled door
- buzzing — a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
- buzzwig — a bushy wig
- bwbasic — Bywater BASIC interpreter. A BASIC interpreter by Ted A. Campbell <[email protected]> which implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) in ANSI C, and offers a simple interactive environment including some shell program facilities as an extension of BASIC. The interpreter source has been compiled successfully on a range of ANSI C compilers on varying platforms including MS-DOS, Unix, and Acorn RISC OS. Version 2.10 was posted to news:comp.sources.misc, volume 40.
- by-line — a line under the title of a newspaper or magazine article giving the author's name
- byliner — a person who writes articles with bylines
- byrgius — a crater in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 40 miles (64 km) in diameter.
- byrnies — a coat of mail; hauberk.