7-letter words containing r, u
- azurely — With an azure colour.
- azurine — a roach found in Europe, bluish in colour
- azurite — an azure-blue mineral associated with copper deposits. It is a source of copper. Composition: copper carbonate. Formula: Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2. Crystal structure: monoclinic
- b quark — the quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and bottom quantum number −1. It is more massive than the up, down, strange, and charmed quarks.
- backrub — therapeutic manipulation of the muscles of the back; massage of the back.
- bahadur — a title formerly conferred by the British on distinguished Indians
- balfour — Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour. 1848–1930, British Conservative statesman: prime minister (1902–05); foreign secretary (1916–19)
- banbury — a town in central England, in N Oxfordshire: telecommunications, financial services. Pop: 43 867 (2001)
- bandura — a Ukrainian stringed instrument, resembling a lute
- barbour — John. c. 1320–95, Scottish poet: author of The Bruce (1376), a patriotic epic poem
- barbuda — a coral island in the E Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands: part of the independent state of Antigua and Barbuda. Area: 160 sq km (62 sq miles)
- barbudo — beardfish.
- barbule — a very small barb
- barnaul — a city in S Russia, on the River Ob. Pop: 605 000 (2005 est)
- baroque — Baroque architecture and art is an elaborate style of architecture and art that was popular in Europe in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
- barques — Plural form of barque.
- barthou — (Jean) Louis [zhahn lwee] /ʒɑ̃ lwi/ (Show IPA), 1862–1934, French statesman and author.
- batture — A sea bed or a river bed that has been raised or elevated.
- baulker — Someone who baulks.
- bay rum — an aromatic liquid, used in medicines and cosmetics, originally obtained by distilling the leaves of the bayberry tree (Pimenta racemosa) with rum: now also synthesized from alcohol, water, and various oils
- be sure — to be careful or certain
- bear up — If you bear up when experiencing problems, you remain cheerful and show courage in spite of them.
- bearhug — to give someone a bear hug
- bebeeru — a tropical South American evergreen tree (Nectandra rodioei) of the laurel family
- becquer — Gustavo Adolfo [goos-tah-vaw ah-th awl-faw] /gusˈtɑ vɔ ɑˈðɔl fɔ/ (Show IPA), 1836–70, Spanish poet.
- becrust — to cover with crust
- becurse — to curse (someone)
- beer-up — a drinking bout
- belarus — a republic in E Europe; part of the medieval Lithuanian and Polish empires before being occupied by Russia; a Soviet republic (1919–91); in 1997 formed a close political and economic union with Russia: mainly low-lying and forested. Languages: Belarussian; Russian. Religion: believers are mostly Christian. Currency: rouble. Capital: Minsk. Pop: 9 625 888 (2013 est). Area: 207 600 sq km (80 134 sq miles)
- ben hur — a historical novel (1880) by Lew Wallace.
- berceau — an arched trellis for climbing plants
- bergius — Friedrich (Karl Rudolph) (ˈfriːdrɪç). 1884– 1949, German chemist, who invented a process for producing oil by high-pressure hydrogenation of coal: Nobel prize for chemistry 1931
- bermuda — a UK Overseas Territory consisting of a group of over 150 coral islands (the Bermudas) in the NW Atlantic: discovered in about 1503, colonized by the British by 1612, although not acquired by the British crown until 1684. Capital: Hamilton. Pop: 69 467 (2013 est). Area: 53 sq km (20 sq miles)
- bescour — to scour thoroughly
- bijapur — an ancient city in W India, in N Mysore: capital of a former kingdom, which fell at the end of the 17th century: cotton. Pop: 245 946 (2001)
- bleuler — Eugen [oi-geyn] /ɔɪˈgeɪn/ (Show IPA), 1857–1939, Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist.
- blu-ray — Blu-Ray is a type of video disk that is used for storing large amounts of high quality digital information.
- blubber — Blubber is the fat of whales, seals, and similar sea animals.
- blucher — a high shoe with laces over the tongue
- bludger — a person who scrounges
- bluffer — good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
- blunder — A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
- blunger — a large vat in which the contents, esp clay and water, are mixed by rotating arms
- blunker — a person who prints cloths
- blunter — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- blurgle — /bler'gl/ [Great Britain] Spoken metasyntactic variable, to indicate some text that is obvious from context, or which is already known. If several words are to be replaced, blurgle may well be doubled or trebled. "To look for something in several files use "grep string blurgle blurgle"." In each case, "blurgle blurgle" would be understood to be replaced by the file you wished to search. Compare mumble.
- blurred — to obscure or sully (something) by smearing or with a smeary substance: The windows were blurred with soot.
- blurted — to utter suddenly or inadvertently; divulge impulsively or unadvisedly (usually followed by out): He blurted out the hiding place of the spy.
- blurter — a person who blurts
- blusher — Blusher is a coloured substance that women put on their cheeks.