11-letter words containing a, b, u, r
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
- decarburize — decarbonize
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- dirt dauber — mud dauber.
- disbursable — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
- drum-beater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- dumb barter — a form of barter practiced among some peoples, in which the goods for exchange are left at and taken from a preselected spot without the exchanging parties ever coming face-to-face.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- durableness — Durability.
- ebola virus — a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.
- encumbrance — A burden or impediment.
- entablature — A horizontal, continuous lintel on a classical building supported by columns or a wall, comprising the architrave, frieze, and cornice.
- equilibrant — a force capable of balancing another force and producing equilibrium
- equilibrate — Bring into or keep in equilibrium.
- eubacterial — (biology) Of or pertaining to the Eubacteria.
- eubacterium — A bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement. The group comprises the “ true ” bacteria and cyanobacteria, as distinct from archaebacteria.
- exuberantly — In an exuberant manner.
- exuberating — Present participle of exuberate.
- farm bureau — American Farm Bureau Federation.
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- flutterball — (baseball) A type of pitch; knuckleball.
- foam rubber — a light, spongy rubber, used for mattresses, cushions, etc.
- four-bagger — home run.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- fracturable — Capable of being fractured.
- framebuffer — (computing) A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data.
- free labour — the labour of workers who are not members of trade unions
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- gaberlunzie — a wandering beggar
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).