10-letter words containing r, u, b, t
- curability — capable of being cured.
- curbstones — Plural form of curbstone.
- cutter bar — Also called sickle bar. (in a mower, binder, or combine) a bar with triangular guards along which a knife or blade runs.
- debentures — Plural form of debenture.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- disturbant — having a disturbing effect, disquieting
- disturbing — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- doorbuster — Informal. a retail item that is heavily discounted for a very limited time in order to draw customers to the store. the price of such an item.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- draft tube — the flared passage leading vertically from a water turbine to its tailrace.
- drift tube — a conducting enclosure, usually cylindrical, held at a constant potential so that electrons or charged particles within will experience no force, and therefore no change in velocity. Compare Klystron.
- drug habit — addiction to recreational drugs
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- drumbeater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- durability — able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- elucubrate — To solve, write or compose by working studiously at night; to study.
- embothrium — any evergreen shrub of the genus Embothrium, esp E. coccineum, native to South America but widely cultivated as an ornamental for its scarlet flowers: family Proteaceae
- erubescent — Red or reddish; blushing.
- erubescite — a copper ore that tarnishes to purple when exposed to oxygen
- estributor — a person or organization that helps an author publish and distribute his or her own work in electronic form
- eubacteria — (biology) Plural form of eubacterium.
- eurybathic — (of an aquatic organism) able to live at different depths
- extrudable — able to be extruded
- extuberant — Swelling out; protuberant.
- exuberated — Simple past tense and past participle of exuberate.
- exuberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exuberate.
- exurbanite — A person who lives in an exurb.
- fart about — to behave foolishly or aimlessly
- fetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., having clusters of fragrant, white flowers.
- filibuster — U.S. Politics. the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure generally favored or to force a decision against the will of the majority. an exceptionally long speech, as one lasting for a day or days, or a series of such speeches to accomplish this purpose. a member of a legislature who makes such a speech.
- fluoborate — a salt of fluoboric acid.
- frostbound — (of ground) hardened by frost
- fruit beer — a beer or ale to which fruit or fruit syrup has been added for a second fermentation.
- fruit bowl — dish for displaying fruit
- gangbuster — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- garburator — (Canada) An electric device between the drain and the U-bend in a kitchen sink that shreds food waste into small enough bits to be washed down the sink.
- gastro-pub — A gastro-pub is a pub that serves very good food.
- gastropubs — Plural form of gastropub.
- gatlinburg — a town in E Tennessee: resort.
- gettysburg — a borough in S Pennsylvania: Confederate forces defeated in a crucial battle of the Civil War fought near here on July 1–3, 1863; national cemetery and military park.