4-letter words containing u
- buhl — boulle
- buhr — burstone.
- bukh — to prate or brag.
- bulb — A bulb is the glass part of an electric lamp, which gives out light when electricity passes through it.
- bulk — You can refer to something's bulk when you want to emphasize that it is very large.
- bull — A bull is a male animal of the cow family.
- bumf — Bumf consists of documents containing information which you may not need or find interesting.
- bump — If you bump into something or someone, you accidentally hit them while you are moving.
- buna — a synthetic rubber formed by polymerizing butadiene or by copolymerizing it with such compounds as acrylonitrile or styrene
- bund — an embankment; dyke
- bung — A bung is a round piece of wood, cork, or rubber which you use to close the hole in a container such as a barrel or flask.
- bunk — A bunk is a bed that is fixed to a wall, especially in a ship or caravan.
- bunn — bun1 (def 1).
- buns — the buttocks
- bunt — In baseball, if you bunt or if you bunt the ball, you deliberately hit the ball softly, in order to gain an advantage.
- buoy — A buoy is a floating object that is used to show ships and boats where they can go and to warn them of danger.
- bupa — The British United Provident Association Limited: a company which provides private medical insurance
- burb — a suburb
- burd — a young lady; maiden.
- burg — a fortified town
- buri — the first of the gods, revealed when the cow Audhumla licked away the salty ice that covered him.
- burk — Martha Jane, 1852?–1903, Calamity Jane.
- burl — a small knot or lump in wool
- burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
- burp — When someone burps, they make a noise because air from their stomach has been forced up through their throat.
- burr — A burr is the part of some plants which contains seeds and which has little hooks on the outside so that it sticks to clothes or fur.
- burt — William Austin, 1792–1858, U.S. surveyor and inventor.
- buru — island of Indonesia, in the Molucca group: 3,670 sq mi (9,505 sq km)
- bury — To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth.
- bush — A bush is a large plant which is smaller than a tree and has a lot of branches.
- busk — People who busk play music or sing for money in the streets or other public places.
- buss — A buss is a kiss.
- bust — a raid, search, or arrest by the police
- busy — A busy time is a period of time during which you have a lot of things to do.
- bute — the drug phenylbutazone, esp when used in the illegal doping of racehorses
- buto — a contemporary expressionist dance form that originated in postwar Japan, first called Ankoku Butoh, or Dance of Utter Darkness.
- buts — with the exception of; except; save: No one replied but me.
- butt — Someone's butt is their bottom.
- buzz — If something buzzes or buzzes somewhere, it makes a long continuous sound, like the noise a bee makes when it is flying.
- cauf — a cage used by fishermen for holding live fish in the water
- caul — a portion of the amniotic sac sometimes covering a child's head at birth
- caup — a gift given by a man to his master for his keeping and protection
- caus — causative
- caut — (obsolete, done by a panther) Emit a call in the manner of a panther.
- cavu — ceiling and visibility unlimited
- cclu — Cambridge CLU. CLU extended to support concurrency, distributed programming and remote procedure call, by G. Hamilton et al at CUCL. E-mail: Jean Bacon <[email protected]>.
- cebu — an island in the central Philippines. Pop: 2 091 602 (latest est). Area: 4422 sq km (1707 sq miles)
- cgsu — Coleg Gwent Students Union
- chou — a type of cabbage
- chub — a common European freshwater cyprinid game fish, Leuciscus (or Squalius) cephalus, having a cylindrical dark greenish body