7-letter words containing ub
- dubbing — the new sounds added to a film or tape.
- dubiety — doubtfulness; doubt.
- dubious — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- dubnium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Db; atomic number: 105.
- dubstep — a style of mostly instrumental electronic music, originating in London, influenced by dub and characterized by syncopated rhythm and an emphasis on bass and drum elements.
- dubuque — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi River.
- euboean — of or relating to the Greek island of Euboea
- flubbed — a blunder.
- flubber — a blunder.
- flubdub — pretentious nonsense or show; airs.
- fubbery — an act of cheating; a deception
- fubbing — fob2 .
- grub up — If you grub up trees or plants, or grub them out, you dig them out of the ground, usually because they are no longer wanted.
- grubbed — Simple past tense and past participle of grub.
- grubber — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- grubble — (obsolete) To feel or grope in the dark.
- gubbins — (slang) Assorted stuff, especially if of little value.
- gubbish — (jargon) /guhb'*sh/ (A portmanteau of "garbage" and "rubbish" which may have originated with SF author Philip K. Dick) Garbage; crap; nonsense. "What is all this gubbish?" The opposite portmanteau "rubbage" is also reported.
- handrub — to rub by hand, especially so as to polish: Handrubbing the wood brings out the natural grain.
- hauberk — a long defensive shirt, usually of mail, extending to the knees; byrnie.
- hot tub — a wooden tub, usually large enough to accommodate several persons, that is filled with hot aerated water and often equipped with a thermostat and whirlpool: used for recreation or physical therapy and often placed out of doors, as on a porch.
- houbara — a bustard, Chlamydotis undulata, of northern Africa and western Asia, having long black and white plumes on each side of the neck.
- hub-bub — a loud, confused noise, as of many voices: There was quite a hubbub in the auditorium after the announcement.
- hubbard — Elbert Green, 1856–1915, U.S. author, editor, and printer.
- hubbell — Carl Owen ("King Carl"; "The Meal Ticket") 1903–88, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- hubbies — husband.
- hubbing — the central part of a wheel, as that part into which the spokes are inserted.
- hubbubs — Plural form of hubbub.
- hubcaps — Plural form of hubcap.
- incubus — an imaginary demon or evil spirit supposed to descend upon sleeping persons, especially one fabled to have sexual intercourse with women during their sleep. Compare succubus (def 1).
- jobclub — a group of unemployed people organized through a Jobcentre, which meets every day and is given advice on job seeking to increase its members' chances of finding employment
- joubert — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1754–1824, French moralist and essayist.
- jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- jubilus — (in Roman Catholic music) a rejoicing, melodic group of tones to which is chanted the last “a” of the second and third alleluias, often following the gradual of the Mass.
- jubious — Eye dialect dubious.
- jujubes — Plural form of jujube.
- ketubah — the formal contract in a Jewish religious marriage that includes specific financial protection for the wife in the event that the husband dies or divorces her.
- knubble — to beat or pound something or someone using one's fists
- knubbly — full of small protuberances.
- kubelik — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1880–1940, Czech violinist and composer in Hungary.
- kubrick — Stanley, 1928–99, U.S. film director.
- lubbers — Plural form of lubber.
- lubbock — Sir John, 1st Baron Avebury, 1834–1913, English author, natural scientist, and statesman.
- lubfish — a stockfish
- lyublin — Lublin.
- minisub — a small submarine, holding only one or a few persons, used in naval operations, underwater exploration, or conducting underwater experiments.
- mubarak — (Mohammed) Hosni [hoz-nee,, hos-] /ˈhɒz ni,, ˈhɒs-/ (Show IPA), born 1928, Egyptian political leader: president 1981–2011.
- myotube — a cylindrical cell found in muscle fibre
- nubbier — Comparative form of nubby.
- nubbing — the act of hanging (a criminal)