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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.
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