8-letter words containing r, u, b, e
- cumberer — Someone or something that cumbers.
- curbable — able to be curbed or restrained
- curbless — with no curb or restraint
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- cuthbert — Saint. ?635–87 ad, English monk; bishop of Lindisfarne. Feast day: March 20
- 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.
- 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)
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- dubliner — Ireland; magazine
- durables — (economics) Plural form of durable; durable goods.
- e number — E numbers are artificial substances which are added to some foods and drinks to improve their flavour or colour or to make them last longer. They are called E numbers because they are represented in Europe by code names which begin with the letter 'E'.
- eboracum — ancient name of York, England.
- eburnean — Made of ivory.
- eburnine — (rare) Like ivory.
- edinburg — a city in S Texas.
- encumber — Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
- eurobond — Eurobonds are bonds which are issued in a particular European currency and sold to people from a country with a different currency.
- eurybath — an aquatic organism that can live at different depths
- f-number — a number corresponding to the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a lens system, especially a camera lens. In f /1.4, 1.4 is the f-number and signifies that the focal length of the lens is 1.4 times as great as the diameter. /, f/, f, f: Abbreviation: f.
- faburden — an early system of musical harmonization
- february — the second month of the year, ordinarily containing 28 days, but containing 29 days in leap years. Abbreviation: Feb.
- fiberous — Misspelling of fibrous.
- firebugs — Plural form of firebug.
- firebush — any of several shrubs having bright red flowers or foliage, as the burning bush.
- flaubert — Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1821–80, French novelist.
- freiburg — a city in SW Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- furbelow — a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.
- greenbug — a pale-green aphid, Schizaphis graminum, of North America, destructive of wheat, other small grains, and alfalfa.
- grub hoe — a heavy hoe for digging up roots, stumps, etc.
- grubbers — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- grubbier — Comparative form of grubby.
- grubbies — a small sculpin, Myxocephalus aenaeus, inhabiting waters off the coast of New England.
- grumbled — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- grumbler — A person who persistently grumbles; a complainer.
- grumbles — Plural form of grumble.
- hauberks — Plural form of hauberk.
- hey rube — a fight between townspeople and the members of a circus or carnival.
- imbursed — Simple past tense and past participle of imburse.