11-letter words containing r, u, b, d
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- 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.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- honor bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honor-bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
- inturbidate — to make turbid
- irreducible — not reducible; incapable of being reduced or of being diminished or simplified further: the irreducible minimum.
- irreducibly — In an irreducible manner, or state.
- jebel druze — region in S Syria, on the N Jordanian border, inhabited by the Druses: 2,584 sq mi (6,693 sq km)
- jerry-build — to build cheaply and flimsily.
- labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
- landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
- lateral bud — axillary bud.
- launderable — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
- liquidambar — any tree of the genus Liquidambar, including the sweet gum.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
- ludwigsburg — a city in Baden-Württemberg state, SW Germany.
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
- masturbated — Simple past tense and past participle of masturbate.
- misnumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- moorbuzzard — a bird of prey known as the marsh harrier, Circus Aeruginosus
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
- mutton bird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- muttonbirds — Plural form of muttonbird.
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
- north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- order about — to bully or domineer
- ouija board — board used by spiritualists
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.