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11-letter words containing b, e, u

  • retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
  • retributive — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
  • retributory — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
  • retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.
  • return bend — a 180° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
  • reusability — reuse
  • rhesus baby — a baby suffering from haemolytic disease at birth as its red blood cells (which are Rh positive) have been attacked in the womb by antibodies from its Rh negative mother
  • rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
  • ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
  • ring nebula — a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra that has a ringlike appearance surrounding its central star.
  • rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
  • rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
  • rubber band — a narrow, circular or oblong band of rubber, used for holding things together, as papers or a box and its lid.
  • rubber boot — Rubber boots are long boots made of rubber that you wear to keep your feet dry.
  • rubber duck — duck-shaped bath toy
  • rubber game — any game played to break a tie resulting when each side has won the same number of games
  • rubber ring — an air-filled ring made of rubber, used as a swimming aid
  • rubber room — Informal. a room padded with foam rubber for the confinement of a violent mentally ill person.
  • rubber tree — any tree that yields latex from which rubber is produced, especially Hevea brasiliensis, of the spurge family, native to South America, the chief commercial source of rubber.
  • rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • ruby silver — proustite.
  • ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
  • rumble seat — Also called, British, dickey. a seat recessed into the back of a coupe or roadster, covered by a hinged lid that opens to form the back of the seat when in use.
  • runner bean — string bean (defs 1, 2).
  • rus in urbe — the country in the town
  • rust bucket — an old, run-down freighter, especially one whose hull is covered with rust.
  • saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
  • sauce bercy — Bercy.
  • sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
  • saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
  • scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
  • scrub nurse — a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.
  • scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
  • scuttlebutt — Nautical. an open cask of drinking water. a drinking fountain for use by the crew of a vessel.
  • scuzzbucket — Also called scuzzball [skuhz-bawl] /ˈskʌzˌbɔl/ (Show IPA), scuzzbucket [skuhz-buhk-it] /ˈskʌzˌbʌk ɪt/ (Show IPA). a dirty, grimy, sordid, or repulsive person or thing.
  • sea biscuit — ship biscuit; hardtack.
  • sea blubber — a large jellyfish, Cyanea capillata.
  • semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
  • service bus — a public bus with a regular route
  • shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
  • shea butter — a solid, greenish, yellowish, or whitish fat derived from the seeds of the shea tree, used for food and in the manufacture of soaps and candles.
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shrubberied — having a shrubbery
  • shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
  • shuttle bus — a bus that travels regularly between two places
  • sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
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