15-letter words containing d, e, b, u
- building worker — a labourer, bricklayer, etc who works in the construction industry
- bulldog edition — the early edition of a morning newspaper, chiefly for out-of-town distribution
- bullnose header — bull header (def 1).
- bullnose-header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
- burden of proof — The burden of proof is the task of proving that you are correct, for example when you have accused someone of a crime.
- buried treasure — A surprising piece of code found in some program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to bletcherous, and has lain undiscovered only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is. Used sarcastically, because what is found is anything *but* treasure. Buried treasure almost always needs to be dug up and removed. "I just found that the scheduler sorts its queue using bubble sort! Buried treasure!"
- bury st edmunds — a market town in E England, in Suffolk. Pop: 36 218 (2001)
- business double — a double made to increase the penalty points earned when a player believes the opponents cannot make their bid.
- butter spreader — a small knife with a wide, flat blade, as for spreading butter on bread or rolls.
- butter-and-eggs — any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow
- butter-fingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- butterfly wedge — a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.
- buttress thread — a screw thread having one flank that is vertical while the other is inclined, and a flat top and bottom: used in machine tools and designed to withstand heavy thrust in one direction
- cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
- calcium carbide — a grey salt of calcium used in the production of acetylene (by its reaction with water) and calcium cyanamide. Formula: CaC2
- cardinal number — A cardinal number is a number such as 1, 3, or 10 that tells you how many things there are in a group but not what order they are in. Compare ordinal number.
- cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
- circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
- compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
- counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
- cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
- crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
- cry blue murder — to make an outcry
- cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
- de bruijn graph — (mathematics) A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
- dead and buried — If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future.
- dead-cat bounce — a temporary recovery in prices following a substantial fall as a result of speculators buying stocks they have already sold rather than as a result of a genuine reversal of the downward trend
- debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
- debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
- debureaucratize — to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
- decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
- decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
- decubitus ulcer — a chronic ulcer of the skin and underlying tissues caused by prolonged pressure on the body surface of bedridden patients
- departure board — a board in an airport, bus terminal, etc displaying the times and destinations of future departures
- destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
- destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
- diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
- discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
- distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
- do the business — to achieve what is required
- double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
- double entendre — a double meaning.
- double exposure — the act of exposing the same film, frame, plate, etc., twice.