11-letter words containing d, e, b, r, u
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- dumb barter — a form of barter practiced among some peoples, in which the goods for exchange are left at and taken from a preselected spot without the exchanging parties ever coming face-to-face.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- durableness — Durability.
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- inturbidate — to make turbid
- irreducible — not reducible; incapable of being reduced or of being diminished or simplified further: the irreducible minimum.
- irreducibly — In an irreducible manner, or state.
- jebel druze — region in S Syria, on the N Jordanian border, inhabited by the Druses: 2,584 sq mi (6,693 sq km)
- jerry-build — to build cheaply and flimsily.
- landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
- lateral bud — axillary bud.
- launderable — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
- lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
- masturbated — Simple past tense and past participle of masturbate.
- misnumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
- order about — to bully or domineer
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- oxford blue — a dark blue colour
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- perturbedly — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
- powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
- prenumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
- rebuildable — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.