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

  • double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
  • double first — a first in two subjects.
  • drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
  • endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
  • equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
  • fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
  • figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
  • grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
  • ground robin — towhee.
  • homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
  • housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
  • hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
  • index number — a quantity whose variation over a period of time measures the change in some phenomenon.
  • india rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
  • infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
  • jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
  • liquidambars — Plural form of liquidambar.
  • malibu board — a lightweight, fiberglass-covered surfboard, usually about 10 feet (3 meters) long with a rounded nose and tail and a convex bottom for increased maneuverability.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • redistribute — to distribute again or anew: The corporation will redistribute its share of the profits to its stockholders.
  • 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.
  • rubbish dump — a place or area where waste materials are dumped
  • ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
  • running bond — a brickwork bond having successive courses of overlapping stretchers.
  • samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
  • saudi arabia — a kingdom in N and central Arabia, including Hejaz, Nejd, and dependencies. About 600,000 sq. mi. (1,554,000 sq. km). Capital: Riyadh.
  • scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • sub-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
  • 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.
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • subdelirious — having the symptoms of subdelirium; suffering from subdelirium
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
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