7-letter words containing b, u
- blowout — A blowout is a large meal, often a celebration with family or friends, at which people may eat too much.
- blu-ray — Blu-Ray is a type of video disk that is used for storing large amounts of high quality digital information.
- blubber — Blubber is the fat of whales, seals, and similar sea animals.
- blucher — a high shoe with laces over the tongue
- bludger — a person who scrounges
- blueing — a blue material, such as indigo, used in laundering to counteract yellowing
- blueish — bluish
- bluejay — a common North American jay, Cyanocitta cristata, having bright blue plumage with greyish-white underparts
- bluetit — a common European tit, Parus caeruleus, having a blue crown, wings, and tail, yellow underparts, and a black and grey head
- bluette — a short, brilliant piece of music
- bluffer — good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
- blunden — Edmund (Charles). 1896–1974, British poet and scholar, noted esp for Undertones of War (1928), a memoir of World War I in verse and prose
- blunder — A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
- blunger — a large vat in which the contents, esp clay and water, are mixed by rotating arms
- blunker — a person who prints cloths
- blunted — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- blunter — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- bluntly — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- blurgle — /bler'gl/ [Great Britain] Spoken metasyntactic variable, to indicate some text that is obvious from context, or which is already known. If several words are to be replaced, blurgle may well be doubled or trebled. "To look for something in several files use "grep string blurgle blurgle"." In each case, "blurgle blurgle" would be understood to be replaced by the file you wished to search. Compare mumble.
- blurred — to obscure or sully (something) by smearing or with a smeary substance: The windows were blurred with soot.
- blurted — to utter suddenly or inadvertently; divulge impulsively or unadvisedly (usually followed by out): He blurted out the hiding place of the spy.
- blurter — a person who blurts
- blusher — Blusher is a coloured substance that women put on their cheeks.
- blushet — a modest young woman, perceived as prone to blushing
- bluster — If you say that someone is blustering, you mean that they are speaking aggressively but without authority, often because they are angry or offended.
- bo juyi — Po Chü-i.
- boatful — an amount or number that could be carried by a boat
- bodeful — portentous, foreboding, ominous
- boeotus — a son of Arne and Poseidon, and ancestor of the Boeotians.
- boerbul — a crossbred mastiff used esp as a watchdog
- bohrium — a transuranic element artificially produced in minute quantities by bombarding 204Bi atoms with 54Cr nuclei. Symbol: Bh; atomic no: 107
- boil up — If you boil up a liquid, you heat it until it boils.
- boileau — Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). full name Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux. 1636–1711, French poet and critic; author of satires, epistles, and L'Art poétique (1674), in which he laid down the basic principles of French classical literature
- boletus — any saprotroph basidiomycetous fungus of the genus Boletus, having a brownish umbrella-shaped cap with spore-bearing tubes in the underside: family Boletaceae. Many species are edible
- bombous — convex; spherical.
- bonasus — a name for the wisent or European bison (Bison bonasus)
- bone up — to study intensively
- bonheur — Rosa (roza). 1822–99, French painter of animals
- bonjour — hello
- book up — to make a reservation (for); book
- bookful — an amount that would fill a book
- boot up — When you boot up a computer, you make it ready to use by putting in the instructions which it needs in order to start working.
- bordure — the outer edge of a shield, esp when decorated distinctively
- borglum — (John) Gutzon (ˈɡʌtsən). 1867–1941, US sculptor, noted for his monumental busts of US presidents carved in the mountainside of Mount Rushmore
- borlaug — Norman (Ernest). 1914–2009, US agronomist, who bred new strains of high-yielding cereal crops for use in developing countries. Nobel peace prize 1970
- borough — A borough is a town, or a district within a large town, which has its own council.
- bosquet — bosket
- bossuet — Jacques Bénigne (ʒɑk beniɲ). 1627–1704, French bishop: noted for his funeral orations
- botulin — a potent toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum in imperfectly preserved food, etc, causing botulism
- bouchee — small pastry case filled with a savoury mixture