4-letter words containing u
- aune — an old French measure of length, usually for measuring cloth
- aunt — Someone's aunt is the sister of their mother or father, or the wife of their uncle.
- aura — An aura is a quality or feeling that seems to surround a person or place or to come from them.
- aut- — auto-
- auth — authentic
- auto — an automobile
- auxo — one of the Graces worshiped at Athens.
- axum — Aksum
- ayuh — (rural New England, especially Maine) Yes; an expression of affirmation.
- babu — (in India) a title or form of address more or less equivalent to Mr, placed before a person's full name or after his first name
- bahu — (in India) a daughter-in-law
- baju — a traditional Malay long-sleeved and high-collared shirt worn by men
- baku — the capital of Azerbaijan, a port on the Caspian Sea: important for its extensive oilfields. Pop: 1 830 000 (2005 est)
- bapu — a spiritual father
- baud — a unit used to measure the speed of electronic code transmissions, equal to one unit interval per second
- bauf — (rare) alternative spelling of boff (to have sexual intercourse).
- baul — a member of a nonconformist Bengalese sect having gurus but no dogmas, rituals, religious institutions, or scriptures.
- baum — L(yman) Frank. 1856–1919, US novelist, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and its sequels
- baur — a humorous anecdote
- bcnu — be seeing you
- beau — A woman's beau is her boyfriend or lover.
- bedu — relating to Beduins
- benu — the sacred bird of ancient Egypt, corresponding to the phoenix.
- beur — a person born in France of North African descent
- bgsu — Biochemistry Graduate Student Union
- bhut — a type of ghost or spirit
- blub — If someone blubs, they cry because they are unhappy or frightened.
- blue — Something that is blue is the colour of the sky on a sunny day.
- blum — Léon (leɔ̃). 1872–1950, French socialist statesman; premier of France (1936–37; 1938; 1946–47)
- blur — A blur is a shape or area which you cannot see clearly because it has no distinct outline or because it is moving very fast.
- bmlu — Black Male Leaders Union
- bmus — Bachelor of Music
- bomu — a river in central Africa, rising in the SE Central African Republic and flowing west into the Uele River, forming the Ubangi River. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)
- bouk — the main part of the body (of a person or animal)
- boun — prepared, ready
- bout — If you have a bout of an illness or of an unpleasant feeling, you have it for a short period.
- brut — (of champagne) not sweet; dry
- brux — to grind the teeth, esp unconsciously
- buaf — [alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Font. A special form of ASCII art. Various programs exist for rendering text strings into block, bloob, and pseudo-script fonts in cells between four and six character cells on a side; this is smaller than the letters generated by older banner programs. These are sometimes used to render one's name in a sig block, and are critically referred to as "BUAF"s. See warlording.
- buag — [alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Graphic. Pejorative term for ugly ASCII ART, especially as found in sig blocks. For some reason, mutations of the head of Bart Simpson are particularly common in the least imaginative sig blocks. See warlording.
- bubo — inflammation and swelling of a lymph node, often with the formation of pus, esp in the region of the armpit or groin
- bubs — (used as an often insolent term of address) brother; buddy.
- bubu — a long, loose-fitting, brightly colored garment worn by both sexes in parts of Africa.
- buck — A buck is a US or Australian dollar.
- buda — an old man
- budi — an old woman
- budo — the underlying ethos of Japanese martial arts
- buff — Something that is buff is pale brown in colour.
- bufo — any of a genus of toads of the family Bufonidae
- bugs — crazy