5-letter words containing b, u
- bijou — Small houses are sometimes described as bijou houses in order to make them sound attractive or fashionable.
- blaeu — Willem Janszoon [vil-uh m yahn-suh n,, -sohn] /ˈvɪl əm ˈyɑn sən,, -soʊn/ (Show IPA), 1571–1638, Dutch cartographer, geographer, astronomer, and mathematician.
- blaud — a large amount
- blued — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- bluer — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness
- bluet — a North American rubiaceous plant, Houstonia caerulea, with small four-petalled blue flowers
- bluey — a blanket
- bluff — A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
- blume — Judy, born 1938, U.S. novelist.
- blunk — to ruin, mismanage, or spoil
- blunt — If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
- blurb — The blurb about a new book, film, or exhibition is information about it that is written in order to attract people's interest.
- blurt — If someone blurts something, they say it suddenly, after trying hard to keep quiet or to keep it secret.
- blush — When you blush, your face becomes redder than usual because you are ashamed or embarrassed.
- bogue — a Mediterranean fish, Boops boops
- bogus — If you describe something as bogus, you mean that it is not genuine.
- bolus — a small round soft mass, esp of chewed food
- bonus — A bonus is an extra amount of money that is added to someone's pay, usually because they have worked very hard.
- bornu — a former sultanate in Africa, SW of Lake Chad: now largely a province in Nigeria.
- bosun — The bosun on a ship is the officer whose job it is to look after the ship and its equipment.
- bouar — a city in the W Central African Republic.
- bouge — to swell or bulge
- bough — A bough is a large branch of a tree.
- boule — the parliament in modern Greece
- boult — Sir Adrian (Cedric). 1889–1983, English conductor
- bound — Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind.
- bourd — a jest or joke
- bourg — a French market town, esp one beside a castle
- bourn — a destination; goal
- bouse — to raise or haul with a tackle
- bousy — drunken; boozy
- bouts — a contest or trial of strength, as of boxing.
- boyau — a minor connecting trench often built in a zigzag pattern
- braun — Eva (ˈeːfa). 1910–45, Adolf Hitler's mistress, whom he married shortly before their suicides in 1945
- broun — (Matthew) Heywood (Campbell) 1888–1939, U.S. journalist, essayist, and novelist.
- bruce — James. 1730–94, British explorer, who discovered the source of the Blue Nile (1770)
- bruch — Max (maks). 1838–1920, German composer, noted chiefly for his three violin concertos
- brugh — a mansion or large house
- bruhn — Erik (Belton Evers) 1928–86, Danish ballet dancer.
- bruin — a name for a bear, used in children's tales, fables, etc
- bruit — to report; rumour
- brule — (in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
- brume — heavy mist or fog
- brung — a past participle and simple past tense of bring.
- brunn — German name of Brno.
- bruno — Franklin Roy, known as Frank. born 1961, British heavyweight boxer
- brunt — the main force or shock of a blow, attack, etc (esp in the phrase bear the brunt of)
- brusa — Bursa.
- brush — A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair.