8-letter words containing d, e, b, r, u
- durables — (economics) Plural form of durable; durable goods.
- edinburg — a city in S Texas.
- eurobond — Eurobonds are bonds which are issued in a particular European currency and sold to people from a country with a different currency.
- faburden — an early system of musical harmonization
- grumbled — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- imbursed — Simple past tense and past participle of imburse.
- iturbide — Agustín de [ah-goos-teen de] /ˌɑ gusˈtin dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1783–1824, Mexican soldier and revolutionary: as Agustín I, emperor of Mexico 1822–23.
- jedburgh — a border town in the Borders region, in SE Scotland: ruins of an abbey.
- laboured — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- lumbered — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lundberg — George A(ndrew) 1895–1966, U.S. sociologist and author.
- numbered — Simple past tense and past participle of number.
- obdurate — unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
- obscured — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obtruded — Simple past tense and past participle of obtrude.
- obtruder — One who obtrudes.
- obtrudes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obtrude.
- outbreed — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- overdubs — Plural form of overdub.
- prebuild — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- purebred — of or relating to an animal, all of whose ancestors derive over many generations from a recognized breed.
- quebrada — Southwestern U.S. a ravine.
- rebutted — to refute by evidence or argument.
- redouble — to double; make twice as great: to redouble one's efforts.
- reedbuck — any of several yellowish African antelopes of the genus Redunca, living near lakes and rivers, the male of which has short, forward-curving horns.
- ruby-red — of the deep red colour of a ruby
- rude boy — a member of a group of often delinquent teenagers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for listening to ska music and wearing suits with trilby or similar soft felt hats
- scrubbed — stunted; scrubby.
- subbreed — a breed within a larger breed
- subgrade — the prepared earth surface on which a pavement or the ballast of a railroad track is placed or upon which the foundation of a structure is built.
- suborder — a category of related families within an order.
- suborned — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subtrend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- subtrude — to intrude stealthily
- superbad — exceptionally bad
- surbased — having a surbase.
- troubled — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- truebred — marked by qualities of good breeding and education; well-bred.
- tuberoid — a thickened or fleshy root resembling a tuber
- turbaned — a man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.
- turbined — having or passing through a turbine or turbines
- umbrated — drawn in a faint or shaded manner
- unbarbed — barbless.
- unbarred — not provided or fastened with a bar or bars: an unbarred door.
- unbridle — to remove the bridle from (a horse, mule, etc.).
- unburden — to free from a burden.
- unburied — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- unburned — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
- underbid — to bid less than (another bid) or less than the bid of (another bidder), especially in seeking a contract to be awarded to the lowest bid or bidder; make an offer at a lower price than.
- underbud — to produce fewer buds than expected