10-letter words containing d, e, b, u, t
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-cut — noting a file having parallel cutting ridges crisscrossing in two directions.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- 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.
- 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.
- dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
- 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.
- dust-bathe — (of a bird) to squat in dusty soil and fluff dust through the plumage: probably performed to combat ectoparasites.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- educatable — capable of being educated.
- extrudable — able to be extruded
- exuberated — Simple past tense and past participle of exuberate.
- fussbudget — a fussy or needlessly fault-finding person.
- grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
- habituated — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- in the 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.
- jute board — a strong, bendable cardboard made from rags and sulfite, used chiefly in the manufacture of shipping cartons.
- kundt tube — a gas-filled tube used to measure the speed of sound: when a membrane at one end is vibrated at a frequency that produces standing waves, a layer of powder forms lumps at the nodes.
- low-budget — made or done on a small or reduced budget; costing relatively little money: a low-budget film.
- lubricated — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- minibudget — a group of economic measures proposed between full annual budgets
- misdoubted — Simple past tense and past participle of misdoubt.
- multilobed — having many lobes
- obdurately — In an obdurate manner; stubbornly, intractably or inflexibly.
- obfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- objurgated — Simple past tense and past participle of objurgate.
- obstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of obstruct.
- off-budget — not included in the regular federal budget; funded through separate agencies.
- outrebound — to exceed in rebounding
- overbudget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- put to bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- quodlibets — Plural form of quodlibet.
- radio tube — a vacuum tube used in a radio receiving set.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- rubricated — (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.
- self-doubt — lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
- sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
- sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- subduement — the act or process of subduing
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.