6-letter words containing bu
- bunnia — a Hindu shopkeeper
- 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
- buntal — straw obtained from leaves of the talipot palm
- bunter — a batter who deliberately bunts the ball
- bunton — one of a number of struts reinforcing the walls of a shaft and dividing it into vertical compartments.
- 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)
- bunyan — John. 1628–88, English preacher and writer, noted particularly for his allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
- bunyip — a legendary monster said to inhabit swamps and lagoons of the Australian interior
- buoyed — Nautical. a distinctively shaped and marked float, sometimes carrying a signal or signals, anchored to mark a channel, anchorage, navigational hazard, etc., or to provide a mooring place away from the shore.
- buppie — an affluent young Black person
- buqsha — a former Yemeni coin worth one-fortieth of a rial
- burble — If something burbles, it makes a low continuous bubbling sound.
- burbly — burbling
- burbot — a freshwater gadoid food fish, Lota lota, that has barbels around its mouth and occurs in Europe, Asia, and North America
- burden — If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
- bureau — A bureau is an office, organization, or government department that collects and distributes information.
- burele — the netlike pattern of colored lines or dots forming the background design of certain postage stamps.
- burgas — a port in SE Bulgaria on an inlet of the Black Sea. Pop: 177 000 (2005 est)
- burgee — a triangular or swallow-tailed flag flown from the mast of a merchant ship for identification and from the mast of a yacht to indicate its owner's membership of a particular yacht club
- burger — A burger is a flat round mass of minced meat or vegetables, which is fried and often eaten in a bread roll.
- burgle — If a building is burgled, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- burgoo — porridge
- burgos — a city in N Spain, in Old Castile: cathedral. Pop: 169 317 (2003 est)
- burial — A burial is the act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a grave in the ground.
- buriat — Buryat.
- buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- burier — a person or thing that buries
- buries — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- buriti — a variety of palm tree of the genus Mauritia
- burked — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
- burker — a person who burkes
- burkha — all-enveloping garment worn by Muslim women
- burlap — Burlap is a thick, rough fabric that is used for making sacks.
- burled — having burls that produce a distorted grain: burled lumber.
- burley — a light thin-leaved tobacco, grown esp in Kentucky
- burman — a member of the dominant ethnic group of Burma, living mainly in the lowlands of the Irrawaddy and Chindwin River drainages and the S panhandle.
- burned — having been cheated in a sale of drugs
- burner — A burner is a device which produces heat or a flame, especially as part of a cooker, stove, or heater.
- burnet — a plant of the rosaceous genus Sanguisorba (or Poterium), such as S. minor (or P. sanguisorba) (salad burnet), which has purple-tinged green flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads
- burney — Charles. 1726–1814, English composer and music historian, whose books include A General History of Music (1776–89)
- burnie — a sideburn
- burnup — the nuclear fuel consumed in a reactor, often measured as a percentage of the atoms of fuel that have undergone fission.
- burpee — a squat thrust that starts and ends in a standing position
- burred — prickly or rough in texture.
- burrer — a person who removes burrs
- burrow — A burrow is a tunnel or hole in the ground that is dug by an animal such as a rabbit.
- 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.
- bursar — The bursar of a school or college is the person who is in charge of its finance or general administration.
- burton — a kind of light hoisting tackle