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12-letter words containing d, e, b, r, u

  • housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
  • index number — a quantity whose variation over a period of time measures the change in some phenomenon.
  • india rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
  • jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
  • landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
  • louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
  • middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
  • mixed number — a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction or decimal, as 4½ or 4.5.
  • mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
  • mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
  • murderabilia — objects that are regarded as valuable because of their connection with murders or other notorious crimes
  • murrumbidgee — a river in SE Australia, flowing W through New South Wales to the Murray River. 1050 miles (1690 km) long.
  • muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
  • obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
  • oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
  • ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
  • order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
  • overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
  • overburdened — Excessively burdened.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
  • prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
  • pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
  • purblindness — the state of being purblind
  • quarter bend — a 90° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
  • re-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • reattributed — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • red mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
  • redistribute — to distribute again or anew: The corporation will redistribute its share of the profits to its stockholders.
  • redoublement — the act of redoubling
  • reducibility — capable of being reduced.
  • reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
  • reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
  • reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
  • rubber goods — contraceptives; condoms
  • rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
  • rubber-tyred — having a tyre or tyres made of rubber
  • ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
  • salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
  • secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
  • shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
  • shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
  • shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
  • slumbershade — sleep shade.
  • sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
  • subdelirious — having the symptoms of subdelirium; suffering from subdelirium
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
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