10-letter words containing b, e, t, r, u
- counterbug — (humour) A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
- cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- culturable — able to be cultivated or cultured
- cumberment — an obstruction or hindrance
- curbstones — Plural form of curbstone.
- cutter bar — Also called sickle bar. (in a mower, binder, or combine) a bar with triangular guards along which a knife or blade runs.
- debentures — Plural form of debenture.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- doorbuster — Informal. a retail item that is heavily discounted for a very limited time in order to draw customers to the store. the price of such an item.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- draft tube — the flared passage leading vertically from a water turbine to its tailrace.
- drift tube — a conducting enclosure, usually cylindrical, held at a constant potential so that electrons or charged particles within will experience no force, and therefore no change in velocity. Compare Klystron.
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- drumbeater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- elucubrate — To solve, write or compose by working studiously at night; to study.
- embothrium — any evergreen shrub of the genus Embothrium, esp E. coccineum, native to South America but widely cultivated as an ornamental for its scarlet flowers: family Proteaceae
- erubescent — Red or reddish; blushing.
- erubescite — a copper ore that tarnishes to purple when exposed to oxygen
- estributor — a person or organization that helps an author publish and distribute his or her own work in electronic form
- eubacteria — (biology) Plural form of eubacterium.
- eurybathic — (of an aquatic organism) able to live at different depths
- extrudable — able to be extruded
- extuberant — Swelling out; protuberant.
- exuberated — Simple past tense and past participle of exuberate.
- exuberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exuberate.
- exurbanite — A person who lives in an exurb.
- fetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., having clusters of fragrant, white flowers.
- filibuster — U.S. Politics. the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure generally favored or to force a decision against the will of the majority. an exceptionally long speech, as one lasting for a day or days, or a series of such speeches to accomplish this purpose. a member of a legislature who makes such a speech.
- fluoborate — a salt of fluoboric acid.
- fruit beer — a beer or ale to which fruit or fruit syrup has been added for a second fermentation.
- gangbuster — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gettysburg — a borough in S Pennsylvania: Confederate forces defeated in a crucial battle of the Civil War fought near here on July 1–3, 1863; national cemetery and military park.
- glauberite — a mineral, sodium calcium sulfate, Na 2 Ca(SO 4) 2 , often found as a deposit on the beds of salt lakes.
- gothenburg — Göteborg.
- grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
- grubstaker — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- grubstakes — Plural form of grubstake.
- grubstreet — produced by a hack; poor in quality: a grubstreet book.
- gubernator — a governor
- guest beer — a draught beer stocked by a bar, often for a limited period, in addition to its usual range
- hereabouts — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- hot number — sth popular
- huebnerite — a reddish-brown mineral of the wolframite group, manganese tungstate, MnWO 4 , a minor ore of tungsten.