7-letter words starting with BU
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter BU. This section showcases how BU at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with BU, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| burning | 10 | pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | - |
| butcher | 14 | someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | - |
| buffalo | 15 | any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo | - |
| buzzing | 28 | noisy like the sound of a bee | - |
| buttons | 9 | - | - |
| bullied | 10 | - | - |
| builder | 10 | someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | - |
| burying | 13 | concealing something under the ground | - |
| burglar | 10 | a thief who enters a building with intent to steal | - |
| bulldog | 11 | a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting | - |
| burrito | 9 | a flour tortilla folded around a filling | - |
| bullock | 15 | castrated bull | - |
| burgess | 10 | English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993) | - |
| buffoon | 15 | a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | - |
| bumpkin | 17 | a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | - |
| buttock | 15 | either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | - |
| busiest | 9 | - | - |
| budding | 12 | beginning to develop | a budding genius |
| butting | 10 | - | - |
| bulging | 11 | curving or bulging outward | - |
| buzzard | 28 | the common European short-winged hawk | - |
| bumming | 14 | - | - |
| bunches | 14 | - | - |
| buildup | 12 | highly favorable publicity and praise | his letter of recommendation gave her a terrific buildup |
| bulimic | 13 | a person suffering from bulimia | - |
| bunting | 10 | a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc. | - |
| bubonic | 13 | of or evidencing buboes | bubonic plague |
| bullion | 9 | a mass of precious metal | - |
| burping | 12 | a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | - |
| buttery | 12 | unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | buttery praise |
| burnout | 9 | - | - |
| bulimia | 11 | a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation | - |
| buoyant | 12 | tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | buoyant balloons |
| budging | 12 | - | - |
| busload | 10 | the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry | - |
| buggery | 14 | intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | - |
| bullpen | 11 | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily | - |
| bungled | 11 | spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | a bungled job |
| buckeye | 18 | tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds | - |
| buffets | 15 | - | - |
| bureaus | 9 | - | - |
| bulwark | 16 | a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | - |
| bushido | 13 | traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living | - |
| bushman | 14 | nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa | - |
| bulbous | 11 | curving outward | - |
| bucolic | 13 | a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | - |
| bullish | 12 | expecting a rise in prices | - |
| bungler | 10 | someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | - |
| burdock | 16 | any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | - |
| bustard | 10 | large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes | - |
| bustier | 9 | a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
| builded | 11 | - | - |
| busying | 13 | - | - |
| butyric | 14 | relating to or producing butyric acid | - |
| bursary | 12 | the treasury of a public institution or religious order | - |
| bussing | 10 | - | - |
| buyback | 20 | the act of purchasing back something previously sold | - |
| bugaboo | 12 | an imaginary monster used to frighten children | - |
| bushing | 13 | a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | - |
| bulkier | 13 | - | - |
| bunraku | 13 | - | - |
| burnish | 12 | polish and make shiny | - |
| burnous | 9 | a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | - |
| bubales | 11 | - | - |
| bubalis | 11 | - | - |
| bubbies | 13 | - | - |
| bubbled | 14 | - | - |
| bubbler | 13 | a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water | - |
| bubbles | 13 | - | - |
| bubinga | 12 | - | - |
| bubukle | 15 | - | - |
| bucardo | 12 | - | - |
| buccina | 13 | - | - |
| buckeen | 15 | - | - |
| buckers | 15 | - | - |
| buckets | 15 | - | - |
| buckies | 15 | - | - |
| bucking | 16 | - | - |
| buckish | 18 | - | - |
| buckled | 16 | - | - |
| buckler | 15 | armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | - |
| buckles | 15 | - | - |
| buckoes | 15 | - | - |
| buckram | 17 | rigidly formal | his prose has a buckram quality |
| buckras | 15 | - | - |
| bucksaw | 18 | a saw that is set in a frame in the shape of an H; used with both hands to cut wood that is held in a sawbuck | - |
| bucksom | 17 | - | - |
| budders | 11 | - | - |
| buddhas | 14 | - | - |
| buddied | 12 | - | - |
| buddier | 11 | - | - |
| buddies | 11 | - | - |
| buddled | 12 | - | - |
| buddles | 11 | - | - |
| budgero | 11 | - | - |
| budgers | 11 | - | - |
| budgets | 11 | - | - |
| budgies | 11 | - | - |
| budless | 10 | - | - |
| budlike | 14 | - | - |
| budmash | 15 | - | - |
| budwood | 14 | - | - |
| budworm | 15 | - | - |
| buffers | 15 | - | - |
| buffest | 15 | - | - |
| buffier | 15 | - | - |
| buffing | 16 | - | - |
| bugbane | 12 | North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally | - |
| bugbear | 12 | an imaginary monster used to frighten children | - |
| bugeyes | 13 | - | - |
| buggane | 11 | - | - |
| buggans | 11 | - | - |
| buggers | 11 | - | - |
| buggier | 11 | - | - |
| buggies | 11 | - | - |
| bugging | 12 | - | - |
| buggins | 11 | - | - |
| buglers | 10 | - | - |
| buglets | 10 | - | - |
| bugling | 11 | - | - |
| bugloss | 10 | widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | - |
| bugongs | 11 | - | - |
| bugouts | 10 | - | - |
| bugseed | 11 | - | - |
| bugshas | 13 | - | - |
| bugwort | 13 | - | - |
| buhunds | 13 | - | - |
| buibuis | 11 | - | - |
| buirdly | 13 | muscular and heavily built | `buirdly' is a Scottish term |
| buisted | 10 | - | - |
| bukkake | 21 | - | - |
| bukshee | 16 | - | - |
| bukshis | 16 | - | - |
| bulbels | 11 | - | - |
| bulbils | 11 | - | - |
| bulbing | 12 | - | - |
| bulblet | 11 | small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers | - |
| bulbuls | 11 | - | - |
| bulgars | 10 | - | - |
| bulgers | 10 | - | - |
| bulghur | 13 | parched crushed wheat | - |
| bulgier | 10 | - | - |
| bulgine | 10 | - | - |
| bulgurs | 10 | - | - |
| bulimus | 11 | - | - |
| bulkage | 14 | - | - |
| bulkers | 13 | - | - |
| bulkily | 16 | - | - |
| bulking | 14 | - | - |
| bullace | 11 | small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters | - |
| bullary | 12 | - | - |
| bullate | 9 | of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered | - |
| bullbar | 11 | - | - |
| bullbat | 11 | mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | - |
| bullers | 9 | - | - |
| bullets | 9 | - | - |
| bulleys | 12 | - | - |
| bullier | 9 | - | - |
| bullies | 9 | - | - |
| bulling | 10 | - | - |
| bullosa | 9 | - | - |
| bullous | 9 | - | - |
| bulrush | 12 | tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | - |
| bumbags | 14 | - | - |
| bumbaze | 22 | - | - |
| bumbled | 14 | - | - |
| bumbler | 13 | someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | - |
| bumbles | 13 | - | - |
| bumboat | 13 | a small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger ship at anchor | - |
| bumboys | 16 | - | - |
| bumelia | 11 | deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex | - |
| bumfuck | 20 | - | - |
| bumkins | 15 | - | - |
| bummalo | 13 | - | - |
| bummels | 13 | - | - |
| bummers | 13 | - | - |
| bummest | 13 | - | - |
| bummled | 14 | - | - |
| bummles | 13 | - | - |
| bummock | 19 | - | - |
| bumpers | 13 | - | - |
| bumpier | 13 | - | - |
| bumpily | 16 | - | - |
| bumping | 14 | - | - |
| bumster | 11 | - | - |
| bumwads | 15 | - | - |
| bunbury | 14 | - | - |
| bunched | 15 | - | - |
| buncher | 14 | - | - |
| buncing | 12 | - | - |
| buncoed | 12 | - | - |
| buncoes | 11 | - | - |
| bundied | 11 | - | - |
| bundies | 10 | - | - |
| bunding | 11 | - | - |
| bundist | 10 | - | - |
| bundled | 11 | - | - |
| bundler | 10 | - | - |
| bundles | 10 | - | - |
| bundook | 14 | - | - |
| bungees | 10 | - | - |
| bungers | 10 | - | - |
| bungeys | 13 | - | - |
| bungies | 10 | - | - |
| bunging | 11 | - | - |
| bungles | 10 | - | - |
| bunhead | 13 | - | - |
| bunions | 9 | - | - |
| bunjees | 16 | - | - |
| bunjies | 16 | - | - |
| bunkers | 13 | - | - |
| bunkies | 13 | - | - |
| bunking | 14 | - | - |
| bunkoed | 14 | - | - |
| bunkoes | 13 | - | - |
| bunkums | 15 | - | - |
| bunnets | 9 | - | - |
| bunnias | 9 | - | - |
| bunnies | 9 | - | - |
| bunsens | 9 | - | - |
| buntals | 9 | - | - |
| bunters | 9 | - | - |
| buntier | 9 | - | - |
| bunyips | 14 | - | - |
| buoyage | 13 | - | - |
| buoying | 13 | - | - |
| buppies | 13 | - | - |
| buqshas | 21 | - | - |
| burbled | 12 | - | - |
| burbler | 11 | - | - |
| burbles | 11 | - | - |
| burbots | 11 | - | - |
| burdash | 13 | - | - |
| burdens | 10 | - | - |
| burdies | 10 | - | - |
| bureaux | 16 | - | - |
| burette | 9 | measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration | - |
| burgage | 11 | - | - |
| burgees | 10 | - | - |
| burgeon | 10 | grow and flourish | The burgeoning administration |
| burgers | 10 | - | - |
| burghal | 13 | - | - |
| burgher | 13 | a member of the middle class | - |
| burghul | 13 | - | - |
| burgled | 11 | - | - |
| burgles | 10 | - | - |
| burgoos | 10 | - | - |
| burgout | 10 | - | - |
| burhels | 12 | - | - |
| burials | 9 | - | - |
| buriers | 9 | - | - |
| buritis | 9 | - | - |
| burkers | 13 | - | - |
| burkhas | 16 | - | - |
| burking | 14 | - | - |
| burkini | 13 | - | - |
| burkite | 13 | - | - |
| burlaps | 11 | - | - |
| burlers | 9 | - | - |
| burlesk | 13 | - | - |
| burleys | 12 | - | - |
| burlier | 9 | - | - |
| burlike | 13 | - | - |
| burlily | 12 | - | - |
| burling | 10 | - | - |
| burners | 9 | - | - |
| burnets | 9 | - | - |
| burnies | 9 | - | - |
| burpees | 11 | - | - |
| burrata | 9 | - | - |
| burrell | 9 | - | - |
| burrels | 9 | - | - |
| burrers | 9 | - | - |
| burrhel | 12 | - | - |
| burrier | 9 | - | - |
| burring | 10 | - | - |
| burrows | 12 | - | - |
| bursars | 9 | - | - |
| bursate | 9 | - | - |
| burseed | 10 | - | - |
| bursera | 9 | type genus of Burseraceae; tropical and subtropical American shrubs and trees some yielding timber and gum elemi | - |
| bursted | 10 | - | - |
| bursten | 9 | - | - |
| burster | 9 | a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | - |
| burthen | 12 | weight down with a load | - |
| burtons | 9 | - | - |
| burweed | 13 | - | - |
| busbars | 11 | - | - |
| busbies | 11 | - | - |
| busboys | 14 | - | - |
| buseras | 9 | - | - |
| busgirl | 10 | - | - |
| bushels | 12 | - | - |
| bushers | 12 | - | - |
| bushfly | 18 | - | - |
| bushier | 12 | - | - |
| bushies | 12 | - | - |
| bushily | 15 | - | - |
| bushlot | 12 | - | - |
| bushmen | 14 | - | - |
| bushpig | 15 | - | - |
| bushtit | 12 | active grey titmice of western North America | - |
| bushwah | 18 | - | - |
| bushwas | 15 | - | - |
| busings | 10 | - | - |
| buskers | 13 | - | - |
| buskets | 13 | - | - |
| busking | 14 | - | - |
| buskins | 13 | - | - |
| bustees | 9 | - | - |
| busters | 9 | - | - |
| bustics | 11 | - | - |
| busting | 10 | - | - |
| bustled | 10 | - | - |
| bustler | 9 | - | - |
| bustles | 9 | - | - |
| busuuti | 9 | - | - |
| butanes | 9 | - | - |
| butanol | 9 | a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents | - |
| butches | 14 | - | - |
| butenes | 9 | - | - |
| butlers | 9 | - | - |
| butlery | 12 | - | - |
| butling | 10 | - | - |
| butment | 11 | - | - |
| buttals | 9 | - | - |
| butters | 9 | - | - |
| butties | 9 | - | - |
| buttled | 10 | - | - |
| buttles | 9 | - | - |
| buttony | 12 | small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | black buttony eyes |
| butyral | 12 | - | - |
| butyrin | 12 | any of three glycerides of butyric acid | - |
| butyryl | 15 | - | - |
| buvette | 12 | - | - |
| buxomer | 18 | - | - |
| buxomly | 21 | in a curvaceous way | - |
| buyable | 14 | - | - |
| buyings | 13 | - | - |
| buyoffs | 18 | - | - |
| buyouts | 12 | - | - |
| buzukia | 22 | - | - |
| buzukis | 22 | - | - |
| buzzcut | 29 | - | - |
| buzzers | 27 | - | - |
| buzzier | 27 | - | - |
| buzzsaw | 30 | - | - |
| buzzwig | 31 | - | - |
