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13-letter words containing d, a, u, b, r

  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • colorado ruby — a fire-red form of garnet found in Colorado and other parts of North America
  • credit bureau — an agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals or firms
  • cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
  • decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
  • dinoturbation — the effect or process of trampling and major disturbance to sedimentary rock layers caused by the movement of dinosaurs
  • direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
  • disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
  • distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
  • dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
  • double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
  • double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
  • draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • durable press — permanent press.
  • durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
  • endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
  • extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
  • faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
  • great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
  • harold burton — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
  • honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
  • hubli-dharwad — a city in Karnataka, SW India: the union of two cities, Hubli and Dharwar.
  • hubli-dharwar — city in SW India: pop. 648,000
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
  • lavender-blue — coloured between blue and pale or light bluish-purple to a very pale violet colour
  • mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
  • millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
  • misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
  • mountainboard — a type of skateboard specially designed for rough terrain and steep slopes, having four large wheels linked by a suspension system
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