7-letter words containing u, b, e, r
- firebug — arsonist; incendiary; pyromaniac.
- flubber — a blunder.
- fubbery — an act of cheating; a deception
- fumbler — Agent noun of fumble; one who fumbles.
- funebre — funereal or mournful
- garbure — a thick soup usually made with bacon, cabbage, and other vegetables, originally from Bearn in SW France
- grubbed — Simple past tense and past participle of grub.
- grubber — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- grubble — (obsolete) To feel or grope in the dark.
- grumble — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- hauberk — a long defensive shirt, usually of mail, extending to the knees; byrnie.
- hepburn — Audrey, 1929–93, U.S. actress, born in Belgium.
- herbous — Of or relating to herbs; herbaceous.
- humbler — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- imbrued — Simple past tense and past participle of imbrue.
- imbrues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbrue.
- imbrute — to reduce to a bestial state
- imburse — (obsolete) To supply or stock with money.
- joubert — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1754–1824, French moralist and essayist.
- lubbers — Plural form of lubber.
- lumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lumber.
- mumbler — Agent noun of mumble; one who mumbles.
- nebular — Astronomy. Also called diffuse nebula. a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Compare dark nebula, emission nebula, reflection nebula. (formerly) any celestial object that appears nebulous, hazy, or fuzzy, and extended in a telescope view.
- neibour — Obsolete form of neighbour.
- netburp — (networking, chat) (Or "netsplit") When netlag gets really bad, and delays between IRC servers exceed a certain threshhold, the network effectively becomes partitioned for a period of time, and large numbers of people seem to be signing off at the same time and then signing back on again when things get better. An instance of this is called a "netburp" (or, sometimes, netsplit).
- newburg — (of seafood) cooked with a cream sauce containing sherry: lobster Newburg.
- newbury — a market town in West Berkshire unitary authority, S England: scene of a Parliamentarian victory (1643) and a Royalist victory (1644) during the Civil War; telecommunications, racecourse. Pop: 32 675 (2001)
- niebuhr — Barthold Georg [bahr-tawlt gey-awrk] /ˈbɑr tɔlt geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1776–1831, German historian.
- nubbier — Comparative form of nubby.
- numbers — a numeral or group of numerals.
- obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obtrude — to thrust (something) forward or upon a person, especially without warrant or invitation: to obtrude one's opinions upon others.
- outbred — Simple past tense and past participle of outbreed.
- overbuy — to purchase in excessive quantities.
- overdub — to add other recorded sound or music, as a supplementary instrumental or vocal track, to a taped musical track to complete or enhance a recording.
- perturb — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- plumber — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- pre-buy — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- puberal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
- raeburn — Sir Henry, 1756–1823, Scottish painter.
- rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
- rebuild — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- rebuilt — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- red bug — chigger (def 1).
- redoubt — Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3108 meters).
- replumb — to replace the plumbing of (a house, building, etc)
- rexburg — a town in E Idaho.
- roebuck — a male roe deer.
- rosebud — the bud of a rose.