11-letter words containing c, u, r, b, e
- counterblow — a retaliatory blow
- counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
- counterbore — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
- course book — A course book is a textbook that students and teachers use as the basis of a course.
- crab nebula — the expanding remnant of the supernova observed in 1054 ad, lying in the constellation Taurus at an approximate distance of 6500 light years
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- crimebuster — (chiefly, US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- culebra cut — former name of Gaillard Cut.
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curableness — The quality or state of being curable.
- curb market — curb (def 5).
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- 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).
- decarburize — decarbonize
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- 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.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- encumbering — Present participle of encumber.
- encumbrance — A burden or impediment.
- erubescence — the process of growing red or a condition of redness
- eubacterial — (biology) Of or pertaining to the Eubacteria.
- eubacterium — A bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement. The group comprises the “ true ” bacteria and cyanobacteria, as distinct from archaebacteria.
- fracturable — Capable of being fractured.
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
- incumbrance — encumbrance.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- irrecusable — not to be objected to or rejected.
- irreducible — not reducible; incapable of being reduced or of being diminished or simplified further: the irreducible minimum.
- irreducibly — In an irreducible manner, or state.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- microbubble — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.