6-letter words containing u
- basque — a short extension below the waist to the bodice of a woman's jacket, etc
- basuco — a highly addictive drug consisting of low-grade cocaine mixed with coca paste and other substances, often cannabis
- basuto — Sotho (def 3).
- bateau — a light flat-bottomed boat used on rivers in Canada and the northern US
- battue — the beating of woodland or cover to force game to flee in the direction of hunters
- batumi — seaport in Georgia, on the Black Sea, near the Turkish border: pop. 136,000
- baubee — Alternative form of bawbee.
- bauble — A bauble is a small, cheap ornament or piece of jewellery.
- bauchi — a state of N Nigeria; tin mining. Capital: Bauchi. Pop: 4 676 465 (2006). Area: 45 837 sq km (17 698 sq miles)
- baucis — a poor peasant woman who, with her husband Philemon, was rewarded for hospitality to the disguised gods Zeus and Hermes
- bauera — any small evergreen Australian shrub of the genus Bauera, having pink or purple flowers
- baulks — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- bauson — a badger (applied contemptuously to people).
- baveux — a meanspirited know-it-all.
- bayeux — a town in NW France, on the River Aure: its museum houses the Bayeux tapestry and there is a 13th-century cathedral: dairy foods, plastic. Pop: 13 478 (2008)
- bayous — Plural form of bayou.
- bb gun — A BB gun is a type of airgun that fires small round bullets that are called BBs.
- beaune — a town in E France, near Dijon: an important trading centre for Burgundy wines. Pop: 22 218 (2008)
- beaute — Archaic spelling of beauty.
- beauts — (often used ironically) something or someone beautiful, remarkable, or amazing.
- beauty — Beauty is the state or quality of being beautiful.
- bebung — a vibrato effect given to any sustained note, esp to one produced by a clavichord
- becurl — to cover with curls
- bedaub — to smear all over with something thick, sticky, or dirty
- bedbug — A bedbug is a small insect with a round body and no wings which lives in dirty houses and feeds by biting people and sucking their blood when they are in bed.
- bedrug — to drug excessively
- beduck — to duck under water
- beduin — an Arab of the desert, in Asia or Africa; nomadic Arab.
- bedumb — to make dumb
- bedung — to cover or make dirty with dung
- bedust — to cover with dust
- beflum — idle, deceptive, or cajoling speech
- befoul — to make dirty or foul; soil; defile
- beguin — a Beghard.
- begulf — to engulf or overwhelm
- begunk — a deceiving trick
- beirut — the capital of Lebanon, a port on the Mediterranean: part of the Ottoman Empire from the 16th century until 1918; many universities (including Lebanese, American, French, and Arab). Pop: 1 875 000 (2005 est)
- belaud — to praise highly
- beluga — a large white sturgeon, Acipenser (or Huso) huso, of the Black and Caspian Seas: a source of caviar and isinglass
- bemaul — to maul
- bemuse — If something bemuses you, it puzzles or confuses you.
- benaud — Richard, known as Richie. 1930–2015, Australian cricketer; played in 63 test matches, 28 as captain; an all-rounder, he was the first to score 2000 runs and take 200 wickets in tests; TV commentator on the sport for many decades
- bengbu — a city in E China, in Anhui province. Pop: 779 000 (2005 est)
- benumb — to make numb or powerless; deaden physical feeling in, as by cold
- bepuff — to puff up
- besmut — to blacken with smut
- bestud — to set with studs
- beulah — the land of Israel (Isaiah 62:4)
- beurre — butter
- bhikhu — a fully ordained Buddhist monk