7-letter words containing bu
- bunting — Bunting consists of rows of small coloured flags that are used to decorate streets and buildings on special occasions.
- bunuelo — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- buoyage — a system of buoys
- buoyant — If you are in a buoyant mood, you feel cheerful and behave in a lively way.
- buoying — 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.
- 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
- bus boy — A bus boy is someone whose job is to set or clear tables in a restaurant.