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9-letter words containing n, u, r, b

  • cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
  • cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
  • curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
  • cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
  • cyberpunk — Cyberpunk is a type of science fiction.
  • danburite — a rare mineral, calcium borosilicate, CaB 2 Si 2 O 8 , occurring in pegmatite in yellow or colorless crystals resembling topaz.
  • debenture — A debenture is a type of savings bond which offers a fixed rate of interest over a long period. Debentures are usually issued by a company or a government agency.
  • debunkers — Plural form of debunker.
  • deburring — Present participle of deburr.
  • disburden — to remove a burden from; rid of a burden.
  • downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
  • drag bunt — an in-motion bunt for a base hit usually attempted by a left-handed batter, who starts for first base while trailing the bat to meet the ball, without squaring around, in order to catch the infield by surprise. Compare sacrifice (def 6).
  • drubbings — Plural form of drubbing.
  • dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
  • dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.
  • 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
  • edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
  • ehrenburg — Ilya Grigorievich (iljˈja ɡriˈɡɔrjɪvitʃ). 1891–1967, Soviet novelist and journalist. His novel The Thaw (1954) was the first published in the Soviet Union to deal with repression under Stalin
  • encumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encumber.
  • endurable — Able to be endured; bearable.
  • endurably — In an endurable or tolerable manner.
  • exuberant — Filled with or characterized by a lively energy and excitement.
  • fibrinous — the insoluble protein end product of blood coagulation, formed from fibrinogen by the action of thrombin in the presence of calcium ions.
  • flensburg — a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein: taken from Denmark by Prussia in 1864; voted to remain German in 1920. Pop: 85 300 (2003 est)
  • flour bin — a small container for flour
  • gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
  • grubbling — Present participle of grubble.
  • gruenberg — Louis, 1884–1964, U.S. pianist and composer, born in Russia.
  • grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
  • guanabara — a state in SE Brazil. 452 sq. mi. (1170 sq. km). Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
  • guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
  • gunnbjorn — Mount, the highest peak in Greenland, in the SE part. 12,139 feet (3702 meters).
  • gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
  • hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
  • heartburn — an uneasy burning sensation in the stomach, typically extending toward the esophagus, and sometimes associated with the eructation of an acid fluid.
  • heuneburg — an excavated prehistoric site in S Germany, near Ulm, consisting chiefly of a great early Iron Age fortification dating mostly to the second half of the first millennium b.c. and indicating that the inhabitants carried on an extensive trade with cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
  • husbander — A person who husbands resources.
  • husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
  • ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
  • ibn-rushd — Averroës
  • ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
  • inburning — burning within
  • incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
  • incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
  • incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
  • 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.
  • inebrious — (archaic) intoxicated; drunk.
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