6-letter words containing a, b, u
- rubato — having certain notes arbitrarily lengthened while others are correspondingly shortened, or vice versa.
- rubbia — Carlo [jahr-loh;; Italian kahr-law] /ˈdʒɑr loʊ;; Italian ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Italian physicist: Nobel prize 1984.
- rubbra — (Charles) Edmund. 1901–86, English composer of works in a traditional idiom
- rubeba — a medieval fiddle similar to the rebec.
- rurban — bringing together the urban and the rural
- sacbut — a person who plays a sacbut
- suable — liable to be sued; capable of being sued.
- suably — in a suable manner
- subact — to subdue
- subman — a primitive form of human
- subpar — below an average, usual, or normal level, quality, or the like; below par: This month his performance has been subpar.
- subsea — occurring, working, etc., under the sea or ocean: a subsea specialist in oil rigs.
- subway — Also called, especially British, tube, underground. an underground electric railroad, usually in a large city.
- tabour — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- tabula — an ancient tablet for writing on
- tabuli — tabbouleh
- tanbur — tambura.
- tauber — Richard, 1892–1948, Austrian tenor, in England after 1940.
- tubage — tubes collectively
- tubate — having or forming a tube or tubes; tubular.
- tubman — a barrister in the Court of Exchequer who had precedence in motions over every other barrister except the postman.
- turban — a man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.
- u-boat — a German submarine.
- ubangi — French Oubangi. a river in W central Africa, forming part of the boundary between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, flowing W and S into the Congo (Zaire) River. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- ubasic — Yuji Kida <[email protected]>. An extension of BASIC for symbolic mathematics and number theory. UBASIC supports bignums, fractions, complex numbers, polynomials and integer factorisation. It runs under MS-DOS and is written in assembly language.
- umbrae — shade; shadow.
- umbral — shade; shadow.
- umbria — an ancient district in central and N Italy.
- unable — lacking the necessary power, competence, etc., to accomplish some specified act: He was unable to swim.
- unbale — to remove from a bale or tightly bound package
- unbare — exposed or laid bare
- unbark — to strip of bark
- unbear — to release (a horse) from the bearing rein; to loosen the bearing rein on (a horse)
- unbias — to free from prejudice or bias
- upbear — to bear up; raise aloft; sustain or support.
- upbeat — an unaccented beat, especially immediately preceding a downbeat.
- upbray — to upbraid
- urbana — a city in E Illinois, adjoining Champaign.
- urbane — having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities: an urbane manner.
- usable — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- vauban — Sébastien le Prestre de [sey-bas-tyan luh pre-truh duh] /seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ lə ˈprɛ trə də/ (Show IPA), 1633–1707, French military engineer and marshal.
- ynambu — a medium-sized S American bird, Rhynchotus rufescens
- yoruba — a member of a numerous West African coastal people.