9-letter words containing c, u, b, e
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cubanelle — a long thin variety of sweet pepper
- cubatures — Plural form of cubature.
- cubbyhole — A cubbyhole is a very small room or space for storing things.
- cube farm — an office which is divided up by mid-height partitions to create separate work spaces
- cube root — The cube root of a number is another number that makes the first number when it is multiplied by itself twice. For example, the cube root of 8 is 2.
- cube unit — Cube units are shelving units made up of horizontal and vertical dividers which form open-ended cubes, suitable for displaying products such as towels in a range of colors.
- cucumbers — Plural form of cucumber.
- cuddlable — Able to be cuddled.
- cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- cupbearer — an attendant who fills and serves wine cups, as in a royal household
- curbsides — Plural form of curbside.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
- cut above — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- cyan blue — a moderate greenish-blue to bluish-green color.
- cybercrud — (jargon) /si:'ber-kruhd/ 1. (Coined by Ted Nelson) Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in e-mail. First there were the "Received" headers that show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge blocks of hex for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This stuff all has a purpose and good user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- cyberpunk — Cyberpunk is a type of science fiction.
- cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
- debauched — If you describe someone as debauched, you mean they behave in a way that you think is socially unacceptable, for example because they drink a lot of alcohol or have sex with a lot of people.
- debauchee — a man who leads a life of reckless drinking, promiscuity, and self-indulgence
- debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debouched — Simple past tense and past participle of debouche.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- decubitis — (medical) Inflammations cause by a reclined position of the body; it often refers to the complications of bed-ridden patients such as bed sores.
- decubitus — the posture adopted when lying down
- decumbent — lying down or lying flat
- deducible — to derive as a conclusion from something known or assumed; infer: From the evidence the detective deduced that the gardener had done it.
- deducibly — in a deducible or conjecturable manner
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumb-cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- encumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encumber.
- eurobeach — a beach that has been designated as suitable for bathing from because it meets the limits set by European Union regulations for bacteria in bathing areas
- excalibur — (in Arthurian legend) the magic sword of King Arthur
- excusable — Able to be justified or forgiven; forgivable.
- excusably — In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree.
- fabaceous — belonging to the Fabaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Leguminosae.
- febricula — a slight and short fever, especially when of obscure causation.
- feuerbach — Ludwig Andreas [ahn-drey-uh s,, an-;; German ahn-drey-ahs] /ɑnˈdreɪ əs,, æn-;; German ɑnˈdreɪ ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1804–72, German philosopher.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- glee club — a chorus organized for singing choral music.
- gutbucket — jazz played in the raucous and high-spirited style of barrelhouse.