9-letter words containing d, r, u, b
- dubersome — (archaic) Doubtful.
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
- dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- duikerbok — duiker.
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- dumb dora — a foolishly simple, stupid, or scatterbrained woman.
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- dunbarton — former county of W Scotland
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- dyersburg — a city in W Tennessee.
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- endurable — Able to be endured; bearable.
- endurably — In an endurable or tolerable manner.
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- foulbrood — any of several bacterial diseases of honeybee larvae, characterized by the putrefying of body tissues.
- furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- glyburide — a hypoglycemic substance, C 23 H 28 ClN 3 O 5 S, used orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- harboured — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
- ibn-rushd — Averroës
- indirubin — an isomer of indigotin which may be naturally extracted from the Indigo plant of China, and effective in the treatment of leukaemia
- indurable — Archaic form of endurable.
- ironbound — bound with iron.
- magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- moundbird — megapode.
- mousebird — coly.
- mud berth — a mooring place in which a vessel rests on the bottom at low tide.
- muybridge — Eadweard [ed-werd] /ˈɛd wərd/ (Show IPA), (Edward James Muggeridge) 1830–1904, U.S. photographer, born in England: pioneered in photographic studies of animals and humans in motion.
- obtruding — Present participle of obtrude.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- outbidder — a person who outbids
- outboards — Plural form of outboard.
- outbraved — Simple past tense and past participle of outbrave.
- overbound — Simple past tense and past participle of overbind.
- overbuild — to erect too many buildings in (an area).
- pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.
- perturbed — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- pre-build — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- prebudget — produced, occurring or implemented prior to the release of the government's Budget
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- pure-bred — of or relating to an animal, all of whose ancestors derive over many generations from a recognized breed.
- pureblood — an individual, especially an animal, whose ancestry consists of a single strain or type unmixed with any other.
- rebounder — a player who excels in gaining hold of rebounds.