7-letter words starting with bu
- bugshah — (formerly) an aluminum-copper coin and monetary unit of the Yemen Arab Republic, the 40th part of a riyal.
- builder — A builder is a person whose job is to build or repair houses and other buildings.
- buildup — praise or favorable publicity, esp. when systematic and intended to make something popular, well-known, etc.
- buirdly — well-built; stocky
- buisson — Ferdinand Édouard [fer-dee-nahn ey-dwar] /fɛr diˈnɑ̃ eɪˈdwær/ (Show IPA), 1841–1932, French statesman and educator: Nobel Peace Prize 1927.
- bukhara — a city in S Uzbekistan. Pop: 299 000 (2005 est)
- bukkake — a sexual practice in which several men ejaculate on the face of an individual woman
- bukshee — a paymaster-general in the Anglo-Indian army
- bulblet — a small bulb or bulblike structure, especially one growing in the axils of leaves, as in the tiger lily, or replacing flowers, as in the onion.
- bulbous — Something that is bulbous is round and fat in a rather ugly way.
- bulging — a rounded projection, bend, or protruding part; protuberance; hump: a bulge in a wall.
- bulimia — Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an illness in which a person has a very great fear of becoming fat, and so they make themselves vomit after eating.
- bulimic — If someone is bulimic, they are suffering from bulimia.
- bulimus — any of a genus of terrestrial molluscs with elongated spiral shells, commonly found in tropical America
- bulk up — If someone or something bulks up or bulks out, they become bigger or heavier.
- bulkage — any agent that aids peristalsis by increasing the bulk of material in the intestine
- bulking — the expansion of excavated material to a volume greater than that of the excavation from which it came
- bullace — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus domestica insititia (or P. insititia), of which the damson is the cultivated form
- bullary — a place where salt is prepared or boiled
- bullate — puckered or blistered in appearance
- bullbat — the common nighthawk
- bulldog — A bulldog is a small dog with a large square head and short hair.
- bullets — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
- bullied — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bullier — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bulling — the male of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction.
- bullion — Bullion is gold or silver, usually in the form of bars.
- bullish — On the stock market, if there is a bullish mood, prices are expected to rise. Compare bearish.
- bullitt — William C(hristian) 1891–1967, U.S. diplomat and journalist.
- bullock — A bullock is a young bull that has been castrated.
- bullous — blistered
- bullpen — In baseball, a bullpen is an area alongside the playing field, where pitchers can practice or warm up.
- bulrush — a grasslike cyperaceous marsh plant, Scirpus lacustris, used for making mats, chair seats, etc
- bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
- bum bag — A bum bag consists of a small bag attached to a belt which you wear round your waist. You use it to carry things such as money and keys.
- bum boy — a person who assumes the passive role in anal intercourse
- bum out — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bum rap — a trumped-up or false charge
- bum-out — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bumbaze — to confuse; bewilder
- bumbler — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bumboat — any small boat used for ferrying supplies or goods for sale to a ship at anchor or at a mooring
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- bumfuck — a remote or insignificant place
- bummalo — Bombay duck.
- bumming — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bummock — a submerged mass of ice projecting downwards
- bump up — If you bump up an amount, you increase it suddenly, usually by a lot.
- bumping — to come more or less violently in contact with; collide with; strike: His car bumped a truck.
- bumpkin — If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.