8-letter words containing r, u, b, d
- colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- cumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of cumber.
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- debruise — to overlay or partly cover with an ordinary
- debugger — a program that is used to find and correct bugs in other programs
- debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- deburred — to remove burrs from (a piece of machined work); burr.
- delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
- delubrum — a shrine or sanctuary
- dewsbury — a town in N England, in Kirklees unitary authority, West Yorkshire: formerly a centre of the woollen industry. Pop: 54 341 (2001)
- disburse — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- disturbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disturb.
- doublers — Plural form of doubler.
- doublure — an ornamental lining of a book cover.
- doubters — Plural form of doubter.
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- dreibund — a triple alliance, esp that formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy (1882–1915)
- drubbing — a blow with a stick or the like.
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- dry bulk — a category of cargo stowed in bulk, consisting of grain, cotton, coal, etc.
- drybrush — a technique of drawing or painting in which a brush having a small quantity of pigment or medium is applied to or dragged across a surface.
- du barry — Comtesse (Marie Jeanne Bécu) 1746–93, mistress of Louis XV.
- dubliner — Ireland; magazine
- duisburg — a city in W Germany, at the junction of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers: the largest river port in Europe; formed 1929 from the cities of Duisburg and Hamborn.
- dukhobor — Doukhobor.
- dunaburg — German name of Daugavpils.
- durables — (economics) Plural form of durable; durable goods.
- edinburg — a city in S Texas.
- eurobond — Eurobonds are bonds which are issued in a particular European currency and sold to people from a country with a different currency.
- faburden — an early system of musical harmonization
- funboard — (surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
- furibund — Choleric, irate, propense to being furious.
- grumbled — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- huidobro — Vicente [bee-sen-te] /biˈsɛn tɛ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1948, Chilean poet.
- imbursed — Simple past tense and past participle of imburse.
- iturbide — Agustín de [ah-goos-teen de] /ˌɑ gusˈtin dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1783–1824, Mexican soldier and revolutionary: as Agustín I, emperor of Mexico 1822–23.
- jedburgh — a border town in the Borders region, in SE Scotland: ruins of an abbey.
- laboured — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- lumbered — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lundberg — George A(ndrew) 1895–1966, U.S. sociologist and author.
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- mud crab — a large edible crab, Scylla serrata, of Australian mangrove regions
- mudbrick — A brick made from mud or clay mixed with straw and dried in the sun rather than being fired.
- murdabad — down with; death to: used as part of a slogan in India, Pakistan, etc
- numbered — Simple past tense and past participle of number.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- obdurate — unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.