8-letter words containing d, r, u, b
- 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.
- outboard — located on the exterior of a hull or aircraft.
- 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.
- puffbird — any of several tropical American birds of the family Bucconidae, related to the barbets, having a large head with the feathers often fluffed out.
- purblind — nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
- 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.
- radium b — an isotope of lead, formed by decay of radium A, that gives rise to radium C, which is an isotope of bismuth, from which radium D, radium E, and radium F, or polonium 210, are derived.
- 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.
- rub down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rub-down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rubboard — a board for scrubbing clothes on
- rubicund — red or reddish; ruddy: a rubicund complexion.
- rubidium — a silver-white, metallic, active element resembling potassium, used in photoelectric cells and radio vacuum tubes. Symbol: Rb; atomic weight: 85.47; atomic number: 37; specific gravity: 1.53 at 20°C.
- 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
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- sandburr — a variety of wild grass
- scrubbed — stunted; scrubby.
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- subbreed — a breed within a larger breed
- subchord — a part of a chord
- subdural — of or relating to the dura mater.
- subdwarf — a star which is smaller than a dwarf star
- 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.
- subround — somewhat round or rounded.
- subtrend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- subtrude — to intrude stealthily
- subworld — in literary theory, a world 'created' by a character within a text world or fiction, for example through a flashback or reminiscence on the part of the character; the subworld is subordinate to but not part of the text world
- superbad — exceptionally bad
- surbased — having a surbase.
- surfbird — a sandpiperlike shorebird, Aphriza virgata, of the Pacific coast, breeding in Alaska and wintering in South America.
- 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.).