11-letter words containing b, u, r, i, d
- diytterbium — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two ytterbium atoms in a molecule.
- do your bit — contribute
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doxorubicin — a cytotoxic antibiotic, C 27 H 29 NO 11 , derived from a variety of the bacterium Streptomyces peucetius and used in the treatment of sarcoma, malignant lymphoma, acute leukemia, and other cancers.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- 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.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
- inturbidate — to make turbid
- irreducible — not reducible; incapable of being reduced or of being diminished or simplified further: the irreducible minimum.
- irreducibly — In an irreducible manner, or state.
- jerry-build — to build cheaply and flimsily.
- liquidambar — any tree of the genus Liquidambar, including the sweet gum.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- ludwigsburg — a city in Baden-Württemberg state, SW Germany.
- misnumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
- mutton bird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- muttonbirds — Plural form of muttonbird.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- ouija board — board used by spiritualists
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
- rebuildable — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- round-robin — a sequence or series.
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shrubberied — having a shrubbery
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subdelirium — a mild delirium with lucid intervals.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subdistrict — a division of a district.