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7-letter words containing n, u

  • 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.
  • bunnies — Informal. a rabbit, especially a small or young one.
  • 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
  • bunting — Bunting consists of rows of small coloured flags that are used to decorate streets and buildings on special occasions.
  • bunuelo — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
  • buoyant — If you are in a buoyant mood, you feel cheerful and behave in a lively way.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • bushing — an adaptor having ends of unequal diameters, often with internal screw threads, used to connect pipes of different sizes
  • bushman — A Bushman is an aboriginal person from the southwestern part of Africa, especially the Kalahari desert region.
  • bushmen — a woodsman.
  • 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.
  • bust on — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
  • busying — actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime: busy with her work.
  • butanol — a colourless substance existing in four isomeric forms. The three liquid isomers are used as solvents for resins, lacquers, etc, and in the manufacture of organic compounds. Formula: C4H9OH
  • 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.
  • buttons — a page boy
  • buttony — like a button.
  • butyrin — a colourless liquid ester or oil found in butter. It is formed from butyric acid and glycerine
  • 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.
  • cacumen — an apex
  • calhoun — John Caldwell1782-1850; U.S. statesman: vice president (1825-32)
  • calluna — a low-growing evergreen Eurasian ericaceous shrub, Calluna vulgaris
  • calumny — Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them.
  • can but — can only
  • candiru — a tiny parasitic freshwater catfish of the Amazon region
  • candour — Candour is the quality of speaking honestly and openly about things.
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