Words Starting With BUR

Here's the list of all the 317 Words Starting With BUR in the English Language.

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bureau
1. an administrative unit of government
2. furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
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burning
1. the act of burning something
2. pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
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burn
1. destroy by fire
2. shine intensely, as if with heat
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burden
1. weight down with a load
2. impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
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buried
1. cover from sight
2. place in a grave or tomb
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burner
1. an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)
2. the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking
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burke
1. murder without leaving a trace on the body
2. get rid of, silence, or suppress
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burst
1. come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
2. force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
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burned
1. treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
2. destroyed or badly damaged by fire
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burial
1. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
2. concealing something under the ground
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burnt
1. destroy by fire
2. shine intensely, as if with heat
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burger
1. a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients
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burgundy
1. a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color
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bur
1. seed vessel having hooks or prickles
2. small bit used in dentistry or surgery
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bury
1. cover from sight
2. place in a grave or tomb
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burgess
1. a citizen of an English borough
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burr
1. seed vessel having hooks or prickles
2. rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting
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bureaucracy
1. nonelective government officials
2. a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
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burglary
1. entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property
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bureaucratic
1. of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy
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burglar
1. a thief who enters a building with intent to steal
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burnside
1. facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off)
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burg
1. colloquial American term for a town
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burrito
1. a flour tortilla folded around a filling
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burdened
1. bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities
2. bearing a physically heavy weight or load
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burdensome
1. not easily borne; wearing
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burying
1. concealing something under the ground
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burrow
1. move through by or as by digging
2. a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
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bursary
1. the treasury of a public institution or religious order
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burp
1. a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth
2. expel gas from the stomach
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burl
1. the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
2. a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
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burgh
1. a borough in Scotland
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burlesque
1. relating to or characteristic of a burlesque
2. a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)
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bursa
1. a small fluid-filled sac located between movable parts of the body especially at joints
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bureaux
1. an administrative unit of government
2. furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
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burnished
1. made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
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bursar
1. the treasurer at a college or university
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bureaucrat
1. an official of a bureaucracy
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burly
1. muscular and heavily built
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burlap
1. coarse jute fabric
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bursitis
1. inflammation of a bursa; frequently in the shoulder
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burro
1. small donkey used as a pack animal
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burdock
1. any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
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