10-letter words containing b, u
- damsel bug — any of various bugs of the carnivorous family Nabiidae, related to the bedbugs but feeding on other insects. The larvae of some species mimic and associate with ants
- debauchees — Plural form of debauchee.
- debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- debentures — Plural form of debenture.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- debris bug — a bug of the family Cimicidae found where vegetable debris accumulates and feeding on small arthropods like springtails: related to the bedbugs
- debt issue — a fixed corporate obligation, as a bond or debenture.
- debutantes — Plural form of debutante.
- decumbence — The act or posture of lying down.
- decumbency — Decumbence.
- deductable — Alternative spelling of deductibletrue; that which can be deducted.
- deductible — If a payment or expense is deductible, it can be deducted from another sum such as your income, for example, when calculating how much income tax you have to pay.
- delft blue — the blue colour of Delft ceramics
- demob suit — a suit of civilian clothes issued to a demobilized soldier, esp at the end of World War II
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- deurbanize — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- die brücke — a group of German Expressionist painters (1905–13), including Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. In 1912 they exhibited with der Blaue Reiter
- diffusible — capable of being diffused.
- disabusing — Present participle of disabuse.
- disburdens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disburden.
- disbursing — Present participle of disburse.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- discobolus — A discus thrower.
- disembogue — to discharge contents by pouring forth.
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- disputably — In a disputable manner.
- dissoluble — capable of being dissolved: tablets dissoluble in water.
- distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- disturbant — having a disturbing effect, disquieting
- disturbing — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- doodle-bug — any of various small, squat vehicles.
- doodlebugs — Plural form of doodlebug.
- doorbuster — Informal. a retail item that is heavily discounted for a very limited time in order to draw customers to the store. the price of such an item.
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- double bar — a double vertical line on a staff indicating the conclusion of a piece of music or a subdivision of it.
- double bed — a bed large enough for two adults, especially a bed measuring 54 inches (137 cm) wide; full-size bed.
- double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
- double day — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- 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.