7-letter words containing bu
- newbury — a market town in West Berkshire unitary authority, S England: scene of a Parliamentarian victory (1643) and a Royalist victory (1644) during the Civil War; telecommunications, racecourse. Pop: 32 675 (2001)
- niebuhr — Barthold Georg [bahr-tawlt gey-awrk] /ˈbɑr tɔlt geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1776–1831, German historian.
- omnibus — bus1 (def 1).
- outbulk — to exceed in bulk
- outburn — (intransitive) To burn away; be consumed by fire.
- outburp — (informal, transitive, rare) To burp louder or better than.
- overbuy — to purchase in excessive quantities.
- pabular — relating to pabulum
- pabulum — something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
- pci bus — Peripheral Component Interconnect
- phoebus — Classical Mythology. Apollo as the sun god.
- pillbug — any of various small terrestrial isopods, especially of the genera Armadillidium and Oniscus, which can roll themselves up into a spherical shape.
- playbus — a mobile playground
- plumbum — lead2 (def 1).
- polybus — a Corinthian king who was the foster father of Oedipus.
- postbus — (in Britain, esp in rural districts) a vehicle carrying the mail that also carries passengers
- pre-buy — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- raeburn — Sir Henry, 1756–1823, Scottish painter.
- railbus — a bus-like vehicle for use on railway lines
- rayburn — Sam, 1882–1961, U.S. lawyer and political leader: Speaker of the House 1940–47, 1949–53, 1955–61.
- rebuild — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- rebuilt — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- red bug — chigger (def 1).
- rexburg — a town in E Idaho.
- rhombus — an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram; any equilateral parallelogram except a square.
- robusta — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- roebuck — a male roe deer.
- rosebud — the bud of a rose.
- saburra — a granular deposit
- sackbut — a medieval form of the trombone.
- sambuca — a licorice-flavored Italian liqueur made from elderberries.
- sandbug — mole crab.
- sandbur — any of various grasses of the genus Cenchrus, having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs.
- sawbuck — a ten-dollar bill.
- seabury — Samuel, 1729–96, American clergyman: first bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
- sebundy — a militia
- shikibu — Murasaki Shikibu.
- sobukwe — Robert (Mangaliso). 1924–78, South African politician. Founder of the Pan-Africanist Congress
- sow bug — any of several small, terrestrial isopods, especially of the genus Oniscus; wood louse.
- stambul — the oldest part and principal Turkish residential section of Istanbul, south of the Golden Horn.
- stewbum — a drunken bum.
- subunit — a single thing or person.
- sudbury — a city in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- sunburn — inflammation of the skin caused by overexposure to the sun or a sunlamp.
- sunbury — a city in E central Pennsylvania.
- tabular — of, relating to, or arranged in a table or systematic arrangement by columns, rows, etc., as statistics.
- tambura — an Asian musical instrument of the lute family having a small, round body and a long neck.
- tilburg — a city in the S Netherlands.
- tilbury — a light two-wheeled carriage without a top.
- tipburn — a disease of lettuce, potatoes, and other plants, characterized by browning of the tips and edges of the leaves, resulting from any of several environmental factors, as excessive heat and humidity.