10-letter words containing b, e, u
- retributor — a person who retributes
- returnable — that may be returned: returnable merchandise.
- rhumb line — a curve on the surface of a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle. It is the path taken by a vessel or aircraft that maintains a constant compass direction.
- rickburner — an arsonist who sets fire to haystacks
- rifle butt — the end of the stock of a rifle
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- royal blue — a deep blue, often with a faint reddish tinge.
- rubber ice — Canadian. thin ice that shifts, cracks, or groans when crossed on foot.
- rubber jaw — a condition in which the mandible becomes demineralized and excessively mobile in animals with advanced renal disease
- rubberized — coated or impregnated with rubber
- rubberlike — resembling rubber
- rubberneck — to look about or stare with great curiosity, as by craning the neck or turning the head.
- rubberwear — clothing made of rubber
- rubblework — masonry built of rubble or roughly dressed stones.
- rubenesque — of or relating to the painter Peter Paul Rubens or his works, which feature full-figured women.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
- rubik cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
- rubinstein — Anton [an-ton;; Russian uhn-tawn] /ˈæn tɒn;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn/ (Show IPA), 1829–94, Russian pianist and composer.
- rubricated — (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.
- ruby laser — a solid-state, pulsed laser that uses a ruby crystal to produce a very strong beam of red coherent light, used in making holographs and in cosmetic instruments.
- rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
- russophobe — a person who hates or fears Russia or the Russians.
- rustbucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
- sauce boat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- saxon blue — a dye made by dissolving indigo in a solution of sulphuric acid
- scarabaeus — scarab (defs 2, 3).
- scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
- scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
- scrubbable — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- sebiferous — producing or carrying a fatty, oily, or waxlike substance
- see double — have blurred vision
- self-abuse — reproach or blame of oneself.
- self-build — the practice of building one's own home
- self-doubt — lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.
- semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- semidouble — having more petals than those of a single flower but fewer than those of a double flower.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- shellbound — encased in, or confined to, a shell
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- shrewsbury — a city now part of Shrewsbury and Atcham, in Salop, in W England.
- shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- sideburned — having sideburns