5-letter words containing b, u
- chubb — a type of patent lock containing a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
- chubs — Plural form of chub.
- clubs — the suit of cards marked with the black trefoil symbol
- clumb — (dialect) Simple past tense and past participle of climb.
- courb — curved or rounded
- crumb — Crumbs are tiny pieces that fall from bread, biscuits, or cake when you cut it or eat it.
- cuban — Cuban means belonging or relating to Cuba, or to its people or culture.
- cubba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- cubby — a small room or enclosed area, esp one used as a child's play area
- cubeb — a SE Asian treelike piperaceous woody climbing plant, Piper cubeba, with brownish berries
- cubed — cut into cubes
- cuber — a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.
- cubes — Plural form of cube.
- cubic — Cubic is used in front of units of length to form units of volume such as 'cubic metre' and 'cubic foot'.
- cubit — an ancient measure of length based on the length of the forearm
- curbs — Plural form of curb.
- daube — a braised meat stew
- daubs — Plural form of daub.
- dauby — Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.
- debug — When someone debugs a computer program, they look for the faults in it and correct them so that it will run properly.
- debur — to remove burs from (a piece of machined metal)
- debus — to unload (goods) or (esp of troops) to alight from a motor vehicle
- debut — The debut of a performer or sports player is their first public performance, appearance, or recording.
- doubs — a river in E France, flowing into the Saône River. About 260 miles (420 km) long.
- doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- drubs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drub.
- dubai — an emirate in the NE United Arab Emirates, on the Persian Gulf.
- dubbo — a city in E Australia.
- dubbs — Plural form of dubb.
- dubby — (music) In the style of dub music; having been heavily remixed, particularly with reduced vocals or emphasised bass.
- dubna — a new town in W Russia, founded in 1956: site of the United Institute of Nuclear Research. Pop: 60 951 (2002)
- dubos — René Jules [ruh-ney joolz;; French ruh-ney zhyl] /rəˈneɪ dʒulz;; French rəˈneɪ ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1901–82, U.S. bacteriologist, born in France: early advocate of ecological concern.
- dumbo — a stupid person: a class full of dumbos.
- dumbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dumb.
- embus — To put (troops) onto a bus.
- exurb — A district outside a city, especially a prosperous area beyond the suburbs.
- flubs — a blunder.
- fubar — not working; completely messed up; bungled; confused.
- fubsy — short and stout.
- gabun — Gabon.
- gebur — a tenant farmer
- gibus — opera hat.
- glubb — Sir John Bagot [bag-uh t] /ˈbæg ət/ (Show IPA), ("Glubb Pasha") 1897–1986, British army officer: commander of the Arab Legion in Jordan 1939–56.
- grubs — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- gumba — (slang, US) A person of Sicilian descent, often used pejoratively.
- gumbe — A style of music from Guinea-Bissau which is primarily vocal and percussive.
- gumbo — a stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes filé as a thickener.
- hubby — husband.
- hubei — a province in central China. 72,394 sq. mi. (187,500 sq. km). Capital: Wuhan.
- hubel — David, 1926–2013, U.S. neuroscientist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize 1981.