7-letter words containing n, u, r
- 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
- burbank — Luther1849-1926; U.S. horticulturist: bred numerous varieties of fruits, vegetables, & flowers
- burgeon — If something burgeons, it grows or develops rapidly.
- 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
- burn in — to darken (areas on a photographic print) by exposing them to light while masking other regions
- burn up — If something burns up or if fire burns it up, it is completely destroyed by fire or strong heat.
- burn-in — 1. (hardware) screen saver. 2. (hardware, testing) burn-in period.
- burnaby — city in SW British Columbia, Canada; suburb of Vancouver: pop. 179,000
- burnett — Frances Hodgson (ˈhɒdʒsən). 1849–1924, US novelist, born in England; author of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) and The Secret Garden (1911)
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- 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.
- burnley — an industrial town in NW England, in E Lancashire. Pop: 73 021 (2001)
- burnous — a long circular cloak with a hood attached, worn esp by Arabs
- burnout — If someone suffers burnout, they exhaust themselves at an early stage in their life or career because they have achieved too much too quickly.
- burring — a pronunciation of the r- sound as a uvular trill, as in certain Northern English dialects.
- burthen — burden1
- 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)
- butyrin — a colourless liquid ester or oil found in butter. It is formed from butyric acid and glycerine
- candiru — a tiny parasitic freshwater catfish of the Amazon region
- candour — Candour is the quality of speaking honestly and openly about things.
- canular — shaped like a cannula; tubular.
- carnous — carnose.
- censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
- centaur — In classical mythology, a centaur is a creature with the head, arms, and upper body of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centrum — the main part or body of a vertebra
- century — A century is a period of a hundred years that is used when stating a date. For example, the 19th century was the period from 1801 to 1900.
- cernuda — Luis (lwiʃ). 1902–63, Spanish poet. His major work is the autobiographical Reality and Desire (1936–64)
- cerumen — the soft brownish-yellow wax secreted by glands in the auditory canal of the external ear
- chunder — to vomit
- chunker — (programming) A program like Unix's "split" which breaks an input file into parts, usually of a pre-set size, e.g. the maximum size that can fit on a floppy. The parts can then be assembled with a dechunker, which is usually just the chunker in a different mode.
- chunter — to mutter or grumble incessantly in a meaningless fashion
- churban — the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, first by the Babylonians in 587 bc and again by the Romans in 70 ad
- churned — a container or machine in which cream or milk is agitated to make butter.
- churner — a container or machine in which cream or milk is agitated to make butter.
- cliburn — Van [van] /væn/ (Show IPA), (Harvey Lavan Cliburn, Jr) 1934–2013, U.S. pianist.
- clunker — If you describe a machine, especially a car, as a clunker, you mean that it is very old and almost falling apart.
- clurman — Harold (Edgar) 1901–80, U.S. theatrical director, author, and critic.
- concurs — to accord in opinion; agree: Do you concur with his statement?
- congrue — to agree
- conjure — If you conjure something out of nothing, you make it appear as if by magic.
- conjury — magic
- conquer — If one country or group of people conquers another, they take complete control of their land.
- contour — You can refer to the general shape or outline of an object as its contours.
- cornual — a horn, especially a bony part that resembles a horn.
- cornute — having or resembling cornua; hornlike
- cornuto — a cuckold
- corunna — La Coruña
- cothurn — A buskin anciently worn by tragic actors on the stage.