10-letter words containing b, e, u
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-cut — noting a file having parallel cutting ridges crisscrossing in two directions.
- double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- doubleness — the quality or condition of being double.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- doughbelly — stoneroller (def 1).
- downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
- 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.
- drug abuse — addiction to drugs.
- drum brake — a brake system in which a pair of brake shoes can be pressed against the inner surface of a shallow metal drum that is rigidly attached to a wheel.
- 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.
- dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
- duckbilled — Having a bill like that of a duck.
- duffel bag — a large, cylindrical bag, especially of canvas, for carrying personal belongings, orginally used by military personnel.
- duisenberg — Willem Frederik, known as Wim. 1935–2005, Dutch economist; president of the European Central Bank (1998–2003)
- dumb-asses — a thoroughly stupid person; blockhead.
- dumbledore — (dialectal) A bumblebee.
- 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.
- dune buggy — vehicle used on sand
- dune-buggy — to drive or ride in a dune buggy.
- duplicable — capable of being duplicated.
- dust-bathe — (of a bird) to squat in dusty soil and fluff dust through the plumage: probably performed to combat ectoparasites.
- dvd burner — A DVD burner is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a computer onto a DVD.
- e-business — also e-commerce
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- ebbinghaus — Hermann (ˈhɛrman). 1850–1909, German experimental psychologist who undertook the first systematic and large-scale studies of memory and devised tests using nonsense syllables
- eboulement — a collapse; cave-in.
- ebullience — high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.
- ebulliency — Ebullience.
- ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- educatable — capable of being educated.
- elagabalus — (born Varius Avitus Bassianus) a.d. 205?-222; Rom. emperor (218-222)
- 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
- embouchure — The way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument.
- embrasures — Plural form of embrasure.
- embryulcia — the act of forcibly removing a fetus
- encumbered — Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.
- enumerable — Able to be counted by one-to-one correspondence with the set of all positive integers.
- enunciable — (of words, linguistic expressions, etc.) Capable of being distinctly enunciated or pronounced in speech.