6-letter words containing l, u, b
- bubbly — Someone who is bubbly is very lively and cheerful and talks a lot.
- buccal — of or relating to the cheek
- buckle — A buckle is a piece of metal or plastic attached to one end of a belt or strap, which is used to fasten it.
- buddle — a sloping trough in which ore is washed
- bugler — A bugler is someone who plays the bugle.
- buglet — a small bugle
- buglix — /buhg'liks/ Pejorative term referring to DEC's ULTRIX operating system in its earlier *severely* buggy versions. Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without nearly so much venom. Compare AIDX, HP-SUX, Nominal Semidestructor, Telerat, sun-stools.
- bulbar — of or relating to a bulb, esp the medulla oblongata
- bulbed — having a bulb or bulbs
- bulbil — a small bulblike organ of vegetative reproduction growing in leaf axils or on flower stalks of plants such as the onion and tiger lily
- bulbul — any songbird of the family Pycnonotidae of tropical Africa and Asia, having brown plumage and, in many species, a distinct crest
- bulgar — a member of a group of non-Indo-European peoples that settled in SE Europe in the late 7th century ad and adopted the language and culture of their Slavonic subjects
- bulged — a rounded projection, bend, or protruding part; protuberance; hump: a bulge in a wall.
- bulger — a thing which bulges
- bulgur — a kind of dried cracked wheat
- bulker — magnitude in three dimensions: a ship of great bulk.
- bullae — a seal attached to an official document, as a papal bull.
- bulled — the male of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction.
- buller — to make a bubbling sound
- bullet — A bullet is a small piece of metal with a pointed or rounded end, which is fired out of a gun.
- bulwer — Sir Henry (William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer; Baron Dalling and Bulwer) 1801–72, British diplomat and author.
- bumble — to speak or do in a clumsy, muddled, or inefficient way
- bummel — a stroll
- bundle — A bundle of things is a number of them that are tied together or wrapped in a cloth or bag so that they can be carried or stored.
- bungle — If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy.
- buntal — straw obtained from leaves of the talipot palm
- bunuel — Luis (lwis). 1900–83, Spanish film director. He collaborated with Salvador Dali on the first surrealist films, Un Chien andalou (1929) and L'Age d'or (1930). His later films include Viridiana (1961), Belle de jour (1966), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
- burble — If something burbles, it makes a low continuous bubbling sound.
- burbly — burbling
- burele — the netlike pattern of colored lines or dots forming the background design of certain postage stamps.
- burgle — If a building is burgled, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- burial — A burial is the act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a grave in the ground.
- burlap — Burlap is a thick, rough fabric that is used for making sacks.
- burled — having burls that produce a distorted grain: burled lumber.
- burley — a light thin-leaved tobacco, grown esp in Kentucky
- bursal — Anatomy, Zoology. a pouch, sac, or vesicle, especially a sac containing synovia, to facilitate motion, as between a tendon and a bone.
- bushel — A bushel is a unit of volume that is used for measuring agricultural produce such as corn or beans. A bushel is equivalent in volume to eight gallons.
- busily — If you do something busily, you do it in a very active way.
- bustle — If someone bustles somewhere, they move there in a hurried way, often because they are very busy.
- butler — A butler is the most important male servant in a wealthy house.
- buttle — to act as a butler
- ciluba — Luba (def 2).
- clubby — If you describe an institution or a group of people as clubby, you mean that all the people in it are friendly with each other and do not welcome other people in.
- debulk — (transitive, surgery) To remove part of (a malignant tumour).
- dobule — (archaic) A fish, the European dace.
- double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- doubly — to a double measure or degree: to be doubly cautious.
- dublet — Obsolete form of doublet.
- dublin — John, 1838–1918, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman and social reformer, born in Ireland: archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., 1888–1918.
- dumble — (UK, dialectal) A dale with a stream.