7-letter words containing u, r, b
- bumbler — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bumster — (of trousers) cut low so as to reveal the top part of the buttocks
- bunbury — to create a fictitious scenario that provides an excuse for avoiding unwanted engagements
- bungler — A bungler is a person who often fails to do things properly because they make mistakes or are clumsy.
- bunraku — a Japanese form of puppet theatre in which the puppets are usually about four feet high, with moving features as well as limbs and each puppet is manipulated by up to three puppeteers who remain onstage
- bur oak — an E North American oak, Quercus macrocarpa, having fringed acorn cups and durable timber
- burbage — James. ?1530–97, English actor and theatre manager, who built (1576) the first theatre in England
- burbank — Luther1849-1926; U.S. horticulturist: bred numerous varieties of fruits, vegetables, & flowers
- burdash — a fringed sash worn over a coat
- burdock — a coarse weedy Eurasian plant of the genus Arctium, having large heart-shaped leaves, tiny purple flowers surrounded by hooked bristles, and burlike fruits: family Asteraceae (composites)
- bureaux — Bureaux is a plural form of bureau.
- burette — a graduated glass tube with a stopcock on one end for dispensing and transferring known volumes of fluids, esp liquids
- burgage — (in England) tenure of land or tenement in a town or city, which originally involved a fixed money rent
- burgeon — If something burgeons, it grows or develops rapidly.
- burgess — a citizen or freeman of a borough
- burghal — (in Scotland) an incorporated town having its own charter and some degree of political independence from the surrounding area.
- burgher — The burghers of a town or city are the people who live there, especially the richer or more respectable people.
- burglar — A burglar is a thief who enters a house or other building by force.
- burke's — Martha Jane, 1852?–1903, Calamity Jane.
- burking — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
- burkini — a swimming costume which covers the whole body with the exception of the face, hands, and feet, suitable for wear by Muslim women
- burkite — burker; murderer
- burlesk — a bawdy comedy show of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the striptease eventually became one of its chief elements
- burlily — in burly fashion
- burmese — Burmese means belonging or relating to Burma, or to its people, language, or culture. Burma is now known as Myanmar.
- burn in — to darken (areas on a photographic print) by exposing them to light while masking other regions
- burn up — If something burns up or if fire burns it up, it is completely destroyed by fire or strong heat.
- burn-in — 1. (hardware) screen saver. 2. (hardware, testing) burn-in period.
- burnaby — city in SW British Columbia, Canada; suburb of Vancouver: pop. 179,000
- burnett — Frances Hodgson (ˈhɒdʒsən). 1849–1924, US novelist, born in England; author of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) and The Secret Garden (1911)
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- burning — You use burning to describe something that is extremely hot.
- burnish — To burnish the image of someone or something means to improve their image.
- burnley — an industrial town in NW England, in E Lancashire. Pop: 73 021 (2001)
- burnous — a long circular cloak with a hood attached, worn esp by Arabs
- burnout — If someone suffers burnout, they exhaust themselves at an early stage in their life or career because they have achieved too much too quickly.
- burrell — Paul. born 1958, British butler and confidant to Diana, Princess of Wales. After her death he was charged with but (2003) acquitted of stealing from her estate. His book, A Royal Duty (2003), revealed intimate details of her life
- burrhel — a wild sheep, Pseudois nahoor, of Tibet and adjacent mountainous regions, having goatlike horns that curve backward.
- burring — a pronunciation of the r- sound as a uvular trill, as in certain Northern English dialects.
- burrito — A burrito is a tortilla containing a filling of ground beef, chicken, cheese, or beans.
- bursary — A bursary is a sum of money which is given to someone to allow them to study in a college or university.
- bursate — resembling or containing a bursa
- burseed — a plant, Lapulla echinata, with adhesive seeds
- bursera — of or relating to the Bursera genus of gum trees
- bursted — to break, break open, or fly apart with sudden violence: The bitter cold caused the pipes to burst.
- burster — a person or thing that bursts.
- burthen — burden1
- burundi — a republic in E central Africa: inhabited chiefly by the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa (Pygmy); made part of German East Africa in 1899; part of the Belgian territory of Ruanda-Urundi from 1923 until it became independent in 1962; ethnic violence has erupted at times between Hutu and Tutsi, as in Rwanda; consists mainly of high plateaus along the main Nile-Congo dividing range, dropping rapidly to the Great Rift Valley in the west. Official languages: Kirundi and French. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: Burundi franc. Capital: Bujumbura. Pop: 10 888 321 (2013 est). Area: 27 731 sq km (10 707 sq miles)
- burweed — any of various plants that bear burs, such as the burdock
- busgirl — a waiter's assistant