10-letter words containing d, e, b, r, u
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- carburized — Simple past tense and past participle of carburize.
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)
- colourbred — (of an animal) bred to be a particular colour
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cummerbund — A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress.
- 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.
- debentures — Plural form of debenture.
- debris bug — a bug of the family Cimicidae found where vegetable debris accumulates and feeding on small arthropods like springtails: related to the bedbugs
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- deurbanize — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- 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
- disburdens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disburden.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- doorbuster — Informal. a retail item that is heavily discounted for a very limited time in order to draw customers to the store. the price of such an item.
- double bar — a double vertical line on a staff indicating the conclusion of a piece of music or a subdivision of it.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- 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.
- 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.
- duisenberg — Willem Frederik, known as Wim. 1935–2005, Dutch economist; president of the European Central Bank (1998–2003)
- dumbledore — (dialectal) A bumblebee.
- 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.
- dvd burner — A DVD burner is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a computer onto a DVD.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- encumbered — Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.
- extrudable — able to be extruded
- exuberated — Simple past tense and past participle of exuberate.
- flower bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- fluoboride — (chemistry) Any borofluoride.
- furbelowed — Simple past tense and past participle of furbelow.
- graubunden — German name of Grisons.
- grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
- guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
- hindenburg — Paul von [pawl von;; German poul fuh n] /pɔl vɒn;; German paʊl fən/ (Show IPA), (Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) 1847–1934, German field marshal; 2nd president of Germany 1925–34.
- humberside — a county in NE England. 1356 sq. mi. (3525 sq. km).
- incumbered — encumber.
- jerrybuild — To assemble a project in a hasty, low-quality manner, especially when cheap, low-quality and/or inappropriate materials are used.
- judder bar — a bump built across roads, esp in housing estates, to reduce speeding