10-letter words containing t, u, b, i
- drug habit — addiction to recreational drugs
- dubitation — doubt.
- dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
- 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.
- ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- 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
- equability — A condition of being equable; uniformity.
- 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
- extubating — Present participle of extubate.
- extubation — (medicine) The removal of a tube inserted by intubation.
- exurbanite — A person who lives in an exurb.
- fabulation — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- fabulistic — Being or resembling a fable.
- fabulosity — (uncountable) Fabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
- 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.
- 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
- fusibility — the quality of being fusible or convertible from a solid to a liquid state by heat.
- gatlinburg — a town in E Tennessee: resort.
- glauberite — a mineral, sodium calcium sulfate, Na 2 Ca(SO 4) 2 , often found as a deposit on the beds of salt lakes.
- globulites — Plural form of globulite.
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- habitaunce — a place where a person or an animal lives or resides
- habitually — of the nature of a habit; fixed by or resulting from habit: habitual courtesy.
- habituated — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- habituates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of habituate.
- home-built — built at home
- huebnerite — a reddish-brown mineral of the wolframite group, manganese tungstate, MnWO 4 , a minor ore of tungsten.
- i doubt it — a card game, the object of which is to rid oneself of all cards, in which the first player places aces face down on the table and the others follow, in turn, with cards of the next lower rank, adding at will other cards, except that if such deception is successfully challenged, the player must pick up all the cards then on the table.
- ibn-batuta — 1304–?68, Arab traveller, who wrote the Rihlah, an account of his travels (1325–54) in Africa and Asia
- ice bucket — a cylindrical container for holding ice to use in drinks or to keep a wine bottle cold.
- image tube — an electron tube that receives a pattern of radiation, as infrared, ultraviolet, or x-ray, on a photosensitive surface and reproduces the pattern on a fluorescent screen.
- immunoblot — a technique used to transfer a pattern of proteins
- in the bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- in trouble — facing punishment
- incubating — Present participle of incubate.
- incubation — the act or process of incubating.
- incubative — Of or pertaining to incubation.
- incubators — Plural form of incubator.
- incubatory — the act or process of incubating.
- incumbents — Plural form of incumbent.
- infibulate — to stitch together the vulva of (a girl or woman), often after a clitoridectomy, in order to prevent intercourse.
- inner tube — a doughnut-shaped, flexible rubber tube inflated inside a tire to bear the weight of a vehicle.
- insuitable — Obsolete form of unsuitable.