10-letter words containing c, u, b, e
- cuban heel — a moderately high heel for a shoe or boot
- cubby-hole — A cubby-hole is a very small room or space for storing things.
- cubbyholes — Plural form of cubbyhole.
- cube steak — a thin slice of beef that has been tenderized by being cubed
- cuckoo bee — any of several species of parasitic or inquiline bee the queen of which lays her eggs in the nest of the bumblebee or other species, sometimes killing the host queen, leaving her eggs to be raised by the workers of the nest
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- cultivable — (of land) capable of being cultivated
- culturable — able to be cultivated or cultured
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cumberless — unencumbered
- cumberment — an obstruction or hindrance
- cumbersome — Something that is cumbersome is large and heavy and therefore difficult to carry, wear, or handle.
- cummerbund — A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress.
- cupbearers — Plural form of cupbearer.
- curb reins — reins attached to a curb bit
- curbstones — Plural form of curbstone.
- curve ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curve-ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curveballs — Plural form of curveball.
- customable — subject to customs
- cutter bar — Also called sickle bar. (in a mower, binder, or combine) a bar with triangular guards along which a knife or blade runs.
- cuttlebone — the internal calcareous shell of the cuttlefish, used as a mineral supplement to the diet of cage-birds and as a polishing agent
- cyberbully — someone who uses electronic communication to hurt, persecute or intimidate people
- cyberbunny — (abuse) Someone who knows absolutely nothing about computers and advises people who know absolutely nothing about computers. The term is used mostly on AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve, etc.
- cybergroup — A group based in cyberspace or on the Internet.
- 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.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- 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.
- 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
- 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 cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
- double-cut — noting a file having parallel cutting ridges crisscrossing in two directions.
- douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- duckbilled — Having a bill like that of a duck.
- duplicable — capable of being duplicated.
- ebullience — high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.
- ebulliency — Ebullience.
- educatable — capable of being educated.
- elucubrate — To solve, write or compose by working studiously at night; to study.
- embouchure — The way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument.
- embryulcia — the act of forcibly removing a fetus
- encumbered — Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.
- enunciable — (of words, linguistic expressions, etc.) Capable of being distinctly enunciated or pronounced in speech.
- erubescent — Red or reddish; blushing.