7-letter words containing u, i
- blueing — a blue material, such as indigo, used in laundering to counteract yellowing
- blueish — bluish
- bluetit — a common European tit, Parus caeruleus, having a blue crown, wings, and tail, yellow underparts, and a black and grey head
- bo juyi — Po Chü-i.
- bohrium — a transuranic element artificially produced in minute quantities by bombarding 204Bi atoms with 54Cr nuclei. Symbol: Bh; atomic no: 107
- boil up — If you boil up a liquid, you heat it until it boils.
- boileau — Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). full name Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux. 1636–1711, French poet and critic; author of satires, epistles, and L'Art poétique (1674), in which he laid down the basic principles of French classical literature
- botulin — a potent toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum in imperfectly preserved food, etc, causing botulism
- boudoir — A boudoir is a woman's bedroom or private sitting room.
- bouilli — a meat stew
- boursin — a brand of soft white creamy cheese, often flavoured with garlic
- bouvier — a large powerful dog of a Belgian breed, having a rough shaggy coat: used esp for cattle herding and guarding
- brimful — Someone who is brimful of an emotion or quality feels or seems full of it. An object or place that is brimful of something is full of it.
- briquet — briquette.
- brisure — a mark of cadency in heraldry
- bruchid — any of a genus of small, often parasitic, beetles
- brucine — bitter poisonous alkaloid resembling strychnine and obtained from the tree Strychnos nuxvomica: used mainly in the denaturation of alcohol. Formula: C23H26N2O4
- brucite — the mineral form of magnesium hydroxide, translucent and white or pale green in colour
- bruised — injured in a way that causes discoloration to the skin
- bruiser — A bruiser is someone who is tough, strong, and aggressive, and enjoys a fight or argument.
- bruited — to voice abroad; rumor (used chiefly in the passive and often followed by about): The report was bruited through the village.
- bruiter — a person who spreads a rumour
- brulzie — a noisy dispute; a disturbance
- brummie — Brummie means belonging to or coming from Birmingham in England.
- brüning — Heinrich (ˈhainrɪç). 1885–1970, German statesman; chancellor (1930–32). He was forced to resign in 1932, making way for the Nazis
- bruting — the primary step in diamond cutting in which the girdle is shaped, often with another diamond
- brutish — If you describe a person or their behaviour as brutish, you think that they are brutal and uncivilised.
- brutism — the characteristic actions of a brute
- bruxism — the habit of grinding the teeth, esp unconsciously
- bubinga — the tree Guibourtia demeusui, native to tropical African regions
- bubonic — of or relating to a bubo.
- buccina — a curved brass horn used by the ancient Roman army
- bucking — bukh.
- buckish — dandyish; foppish
- bucolic — Bucolic means relating to the countryside.
- budding — If you describe someone as, for example, a budding businessman or a budding artist, you mean that they are starting to succeed or become interested in business or art.
- budlike — resembling a bud
- budweis — České Budějovice
- buffing — polishing
- bug fix — (programming) A change to a program or system intended to permanently cure a bug. Often a fix for one bug inadvertantly introduces new bugs, hence the need for careful forethought and testing. Compare: workaround.
- bugatti — Ettore (Arco Isidoro) (ˈɛttore). 1881–1947, Italian car manufacturer; founder of the Bugatti car factory at Molsheim (1909)
- bugging — surveillance using a hidden microphone
- builder — A builder is a person whose job is to build or repair houses and other buildings.
- buildup — praise or favorable publicity, esp. when systematic and intended to make something popular, well-known, etc.
- buirdly — well-built; stocky
- buisson — Ferdinand Édouard [fer-dee-nahn ey-dwar] /fɛr diˈnɑ̃ eɪˈdwær/ (Show IPA), 1841–1932, French statesman and educator: Nobel Peace Prize 1927.
- bulging — a rounded projection, bend, or protruding part; protuberance; hump: a bulge in a wall.
- bulimia — Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an illness in which a person has a very great fear of becoming fat, and so they make themselves vomit after eating.
- bulimic — If someone is bulimic, they are suffering from bulimia.
- bulimus — any of a genus of terrestrial molluscs with elongated spiral shells, commonly found in tropical America