6-letter words containing u, l, e
- bulged — a rounded projection, bend, or protruding part; protuberance; hump: a bulge in a wall.
- bulger — a thing which bulges
- bulker — magnitude in three dimensions: a ship of great bulk.
- bullae — a seal attached to an official document, as a papal bull.
- bulled — the male of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction.
- buller — to make a bubbling sound
- bullet — A bullet is a small piece of metal with a pointed or rounded end, which is fired out of a gun.
- bulwer — Sir Henry (William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer; Baron Dalling and Bulwer) 1801–72, British diplomat and author.
- bumble — to speak or do in a clumsy, muddled, or inefficient way
- bummel — a stroll
- bundle — A bundle of things is a number of them that are tied together or wrapped in a cloth or bag so that they can be carried or stored.
- bungle — If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy.
- bunuel — Luis (lwis). 1900–83, Spanish film director. He collaborated with Salvador Dali on the first surrealist films, Un Chien andalou (1929) and L'Age d'or (1930). His later films include Viridiana (1961), Belle de jour (1966), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
- burble — If something burbles, it makes a low continuous bubbling sound.
- burele — the netlike pattern of colored lines or dots forming the background design of certain postage stamps.
- burgle — If a building is burgled, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- burled — having burls that produce a distorted grain: burled lumber.
- burley — a light thin-leaved tobacco, grown esp in Kentucky
- bushel — A bushel is a unit of volume that is used for measuring agricultural produce such as corn or beans. A bushel is equivalent in volume to eight gallons.
- bustle — If someone bustles somewhere, they move there in a hurried way, often because they are very busy.
- butler — A butler is the most important male servant in a wealthy house.
- buttle — to act as a butler
- caelum — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere close to Eridanus
- calque — a borrowing by which a specialized meaning of a word or phrase in one language is transferred to another language by a literal translation of each of the individual elements (Ex.: masterpiece, from German meisterstück)
- caudle — a hot spiced wine drink made with gruel, formerly used medicinally
- cautel — craftiness; skilful deceit
- cedula — a form of identification, usually a card, in Spanish-speaking countries
- celure — an ornamented canopy, as for a bed or dais.
- cerule — (poetic) Cerulean.
- claque — a group of people hired to applaud
- claude — Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria
- clause — A clause is a section of a legal document.
- cletus — Anacletus.
- clique — If you describe a group of people as a clique, you mean that they spend a lot of time together and seem unfriendly towards people who are not in the group.
- cloque — fabric with an embossed surface
- clouet — François (frɑ̃swa), ?1515–72, and his father, Jean (ʒɑ̃), ?1485–?1540, French portrait painters
- cludge — (slang, UK dialectal) A toilet.
- clunge — (UK, vulgar, slang, mostly, internet) vagina.
- coleus — any plant of the Old World genus Coleus: cultivated for their variegated leaves, typically marked with red, yellow, or white: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- colure — either of two great circles on the celestial sphere, one of which passes through the celestial poles and the equinoxes and the other through the poles and the solstices
- coulde — Obsolete spelling of could.
- coulee — a flow of molten lava
- couple — If you refer to a couple of people or things, you mean two or approximately two of them, although the exact number is not important or you are not sure of it.
- cruell — Obsolete spelling of cruel.
- cruels — Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
- cuddle — If you cuddle someone, you put your arms round them and hold them close as a way of showing your affection.
- cudgel — A cudgel is a thick, short stick that is used as a weapon.
- cuffle — to scuffle
- culled — to choose; select; pick.
- cullen — William Douglas, Baron. born 1935, Scottish judge who conducted public inquiries into the Piper Alpha disaster (1990), the Dunblane school shootings (1996), and the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster (1999); led the tribunal which turned down the appeal (2002) of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing