6-letter words containing bu
- nimbus — Classical Mythology. a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
- nobbut — nothing but; only
- nubuck — suede-like leather
- ogburn — William Fielding, 1886–1959, U.S. sociologist and educator.
- ombuds — Plural form of ombud.
- outbuy — (transitive) To spend more money than (someone) buying goods.
- phobus — Also, Phobus [foh-buh s] /ˈfoʊ bəs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a son and attendant of Ares and the personification of a fear held to possess armies and cause their defeat.
- prebuy — of or pertaining to the advance purchase of a product or service
- rebuff — a blunt or abrupt rejection, as of a person making advances.
- rebuke — to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand.
- rebury — to bury (something, esp a dead body) in the ground again
- redbud — an American tree, Cercis canadensis, of the legume family, resembling the Eurasian Judas tree and having small, budlike, pink flowers: the state tree of Oklahoma.
- redbug — chigger (def 1).
- robust — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- sacbut — a person who plays a sacbut
- sigbus — bus error
- sorbus — a rowan or related tree
- suburb — a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community.
- tabula — an ancient tablet for writing on
- tabuli — tabbouleh
- tanbur — tambura.
- thimbu — a city in and the capital of Bhutan, in the W part.
- tubule — a small tube; a minute tubular structure.
- tyburn — a former place of public execution in London, England.
- ubuntu — humanity or fellow feeling; kindness
- unbury — to dig up (that which was buried); unearth
- unbusy — not busy; idle; unoccupied
- vmebus — A widely accepted backplane interconnection bus system developed by a consortium of companies led by Motorola, now standardised as IEEE 1014.
- wilbur — Richard, born 1921, U.S. poet: U.S. poet laureate 1987–88.
- woburn — a city in E Massachusetts, N of Boston.
- ynambu — a medium-sized S American bird, Rhynchotus rufescens