11-letter words containing e, m, b, u
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- desublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- diytterbium — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two ytterbium atoms in a molecule.
- double demy — a size of printing paper, 22½ × 35 inches (57 × 89 cm).
- double dome — an intellectual; egghead.
- double jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
- double room — double (def 13).
- double time — a doubled wage rate, paid for working on public holidays, etc
- double-dome — an intellectual; egghead.
- double-team — to defend against or block (an opposing player) by using two players, as in football or basketball: By double-teaming the end the safety men left the other receiver in the open.
- double-time — to cause to move in double time: Double-time the troops to the mess hall.
- drum-beater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- dumb barter — a form of barter practiced among some peoples, in which the goods for exchange are left at and taken from a preselected spot without the exchanging parties ever coming face-to-face.
- dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dumbed down — (jargon) Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- encumbering — Present participle of encumber.
- encumbrance — A burden or impediment.
- equilibrium — A state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced.
- eubacterium — A bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement. The group comprises the “ true ” bacteria and cyanobacteria, as distinct from archaebacteria.
- farm bureau — American Farm Bureau Federation.
- foam rubber — a light, spongy rubber, used for mattresses, cushions, etc.
- framebuffer — (computing) A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data.
- funambulate — to walk on a tightrope
- goose bumps — If you get goose bumps, the hairs on your skin stand up so that it is covered with tiny bumps. You get goose bumps when you are cold, frightened, or excited.
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- human being — any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
- humbuggable — capable of being humbugged
- illuminable — capable of being illuminated.
- imbursement — (obsolete) The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
- immune body — antibody
- implausible — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
- impulse buy — spur-of-the-moment purchase
- incumbrance — encumbrance.
- innumerable — very numerous.
- innumerably — very numerous.
- jumble sale — rummage sale.