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13-letter words containing d, r, u, b

  • mound-builder — a member of one of the various American Indian tribes who, in prehistoric and early historic times, erected the burial mounds and other earthworks of the Mississippi drainage basin and southeastern U.S.
  • mountainboard — a type of skateboard specially designed for rough terrain and steep slopes, having four large wheels linked by a suspension system
  • mourning band — a piece of black material, esp an armband, worn to indicate that the wearer is in mourning
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • neighbourhood — Standard spelling of neighborhood.
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
  • non-reducible — capable of being reduced.
  • nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
  • nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
  • obiter dictum — an incidental or passing remark, opinion, etc.
  • old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
  • ombudspersons — Plural form of ombudsperson.
  • onus probandi — the burden of proof.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • outward bound — (in Britain) a scheme to provide adventure training for young people
  • outward-bound — headed in an outward direction, as toward foreign ports: We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.
  • over-abundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overburdening — Present participle of overburden.
  • pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • quarter-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person with one white grandparent, especially a person of American Indian ancestry.
  • quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
  • random number — pseudorandom number
  • random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
  • record button — the button that you press on a device or remote control to begin recording sound, images, etc
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • rosebud mouth — a mouth that resembles the unopened flower of a rose in shape
  • round of beef — round1 (def 35a).
  • rubber bridge — a form of contract bridge in which deals are not replayed and in which scores are settled after each rubber.
  • rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
  • rube goldberg — having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
  • rumbledethump — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • run batted in — a runner advanced to home for a score by a particular player at bat, as when he or she gets a hit or a walk with the bases loaded: a category important in individual offensive statistics. Abbreviation: R.B.I.
  • run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
  • running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
  • rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
  • smoked rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of brown sheets obtained by coagulating latex with an acid, rolling it into sheets, and drying over open wood fires. It is the main raw material for natural rubber products
  • sodium borate — borax1 .
  • sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
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