6-letter words containing s, u
- autism — Autism is a developmental disorder that can cause someone to have difficulty in communicating with and responding to other people.
- autist — an autistic person
- auxins — Plural form of auxin.
- avulse — to remove or take away by force
- awmous — almous.
- baluns — Plural form of balun.
- basque — a short extension below the waist to the bodice of a woman's jacket, etc
- basuco — a highly addictive drug consisting of low-grade cocaine mixed with coca paste and other substances, often cannabis
- basuto — Sotho (def 3).
- baucis — a poor peasant woman who, with her husband Philemon, was rewarded for hospitality to the disguised gods Zeus and Hermes
- baulks — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- bauson — a badger (applied contemptuously to people).
- bayous — Plural form of bayou.
- beauts — (often used ironically) something or someone beautiful, remarkable, or amazing.
- bedust — to cover with dust
- bemuse — If something bemuses you, it puzzles or confuses you.
- besmut — to blacken with smut
- bestud — to set with studs
- birrus — a hooded cloak of coarse wool, a common article of apparel in the later Roman Empire.
- bisque — a thick rich soup made from shellfish
- bissau — a port on the Atlantic, the capital of Guinea-Bissau (until 1974 Portuguese Guinea). Pop: 369 000 (2005 est)
- blouse — A blouse is a kind of shirt worn by a girl or woman.
- blousy — like a blouse
- bluest — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- bluesy — If you describe a song or the way it is performed as bluesy, you mean that it is performed in a way that is characteristic of the blues.
- bluffs — good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
- bluish — Something that is bluish is slightly blue in colour.
- bosque — a clump or grove of trees
- boughs — a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches.
- boules — Boules is a game in which a small ball is thrown and then the players try to throw other balls as close to the first ball as possible.
- bounds — a limit; boundary (esp in the phrase know no bounds)
- bourse — A country's or region's bourse is its stock exchange.
- brotus — broadus.
- bruges — a city in NW Belgium, capital of West Flanders province: centre of the medieval European wool and cloth trade. Pop: 117 025 (2004 est)
- bruise — A bruise is an injury which appears as a purple mark on your body, although the skin is not broken.
- bruits — to voice abroad; rumor (used chiefly in the passive and often followed by about): The report was bruited through the village.
- brushy — like a brush; thick and furry
- brutus — Lucius Junius (ˈluːʃəs ˈdʒuːnɪəs). late 6th century bc, Roman statesman who ousted the tyrant Tarquin (509) and helped found the Roman republic
- bubkes — nothing
- bubkis — nothing
- buboes — an inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland, especially in the groin or armpit.
- bugsha — buqsha.
- bugsys — (programming) A programming system for pattern recognition and preparing animated films, for IBM 7094 and IBM 360.
- bunsen — Robert Wilhelm (ˈroːbɛrt ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1811–99, German chemist who with Kirchhoff developed spectrum analysis and discovered the elements caesium and rubidium. He invented the Bunsen burner and the ice calorimeter
- buqsha — a former Yemeni coin worth one-fortieth of a rial
- burgas — a port in SE Bulgaria on an inlet of the Black Sea. Pop: 177 000 (2005 est)
- burgos — a city in N Spain, in Old Castile: cathedral. Pop: 169 317 (2003 est)
- buries — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- bursae — Anatomy, Zoology. a pouch, sac, or vesicle, especially a sac containing synovia, to facilitate motion, as between a tendon and a bone.
- bursal — Anatomy, Zoology. a pouch, sac, or vesicle, especially a sac containing synovia, to facilitate motion, as between a tendon and a bone.