10-letter words containing b, u
- doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- doubtfully — of uncertain outcome or result.
- doubtingly — In a doubting manner.
- douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- dough bird — the Eskimo curlew.
- doughbelly — stoneroller (def 1).
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- draft tube — the flared passage leading vertically from a water turbine to its tailrace.
- drift tube — a conducting enclosure, usually cylindrical, held at a constant potential so that electrons or charged particles within will experience no force, and therefore no change in velocity. Compare Klystron.
- drug abuse — addiction to drugs.
- drug baron — the head of an organization that deals in illegal drugs
- drug habit — addiction to recreational drugs
- drum brake — a brake system in which a pair of brake shoes can be pressed against the inner surface of a shallow metal drum that is rigidly attached to a wheel.
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- drumbeater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- dubitation — doubt.
- dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
- duckbilled — Having a bill like that of a duck.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- duffel bag — a large, cylindrical bag, especially of canvas, for carrying personal belongings, orginally used by military personnel.
- duisenberg — Willem Frederik, known as Wim. 1935–2005, Dutch economist; president of the European Central Bank (1998–2003)
- dumb bunny — a stupid person.
- dumb cluck — a stupid person.
- dumb-asses — a thoroughly stupid person; blockhead.
- dumbfounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dumbfound.
- dumbledore — (dialectal) A bumblebee.
- dumbsizing — Present participle of dumbsize.
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- dune buggy — vehicle used on sand
- dune-buggy — to drive or ride in a dune buggy.
- duplicable — capable of being duplicated.
- durability — able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- dust bunny — Slang. a loose, tangled ball of dust, lint, hair, etc., especially as found under a low piece of furniture.
- dust-bathe — (of a bird) to squat in dusty soil and fluff dust through the plumage: probably performed to combat ectoparasites.
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- duty-bound — If you say you are duty-bound to do something, you are emphasizing that you feel it is your duty to do it.
- dvd burner — A DVD burner is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a computer onto a DVD.
- e-business — also e-commerce
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- ebbinghaus — Hermann (ˈhɛrman). 1850–1909, German experimental psychologist who undertook the first systematic and large-scale studies of memory and devised tests using nonsense syllables
- eboulement — a collapse; cave-in.
- ebullience — high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.