11-letter words containing b, u, r
- currant bun — a sweet bun containing currants
- currer bell — Anne ("Acton Bell") 1820–49, English novelist.
- currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
- cybersurfer — A person who surfs (browses the Internet).
- dandy brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles that is used for grooming animals, especially horses.
- dandy-brush — a stiff brush used for grooming a horse
- dark nebula — a type of nebula that is observed by its blocking of radiation from other sources
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deattribute — to withdraw the initial ascription of (a work of art)
- debt burden — A debt burden is a large amount of money that one country or organization owes to another and which they find very difficult to repay.
- decarburize — decarbonize
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- dirt dauber — mud dauber.
- disburdened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburden.
- disbursable — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- distribuend — something that is distributed
- distributed — (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized by relatively extensive contact or constriction between the articulating organs, as the (sh) in show in contrast to the (s) in so.
- distributee — Law. a person who shares in a decedent estate.
- distributer — a person or thing that distributes.
- distributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distribute.
- distributor — a person or thing that distributes.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- diytterbium — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two ytterbium atoms in a molecule.
- do sb proud — If someone does you proud, they treat you very well, for example by welcoming you and giving you good food and entertainment.
- do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
- do your bit — contribute
- doorbusters — Plural form of doorbuster.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- double room — double (def 13).
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- double-reed — of or relating to wind instruments producing sounds through two reeds fastened and beating together, as the oboe.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- doubletrees — Plural form of doubletree.
- 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.
- drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
- drum-beater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- dumb barter — a form of barter practiced among some peoples, in which the goods for exchange are left at and taken from a preselected spot without the exchanging parties ever coming face-to-face.