7-letter words containing t, u, r, b
- doubter — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- embrute — Alternative form of imbrute.
- imbrute — to reduce to a bestial state
- inburst — an irruption
- joubert — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1754–1824, French moralist and essayist.
- netburp — (networking, chat) (Or "netsplit") When netlag gets really bad, and delays between IRC servers exceed a certain threshhold, the network effectively becomes partitioned for a period of time, and large numbers of people seem to be signing off at the same time and then signing back on again when things get better. An instance of this is called a "netburp" (or, sometimes, netsplit).
- obtrude — to thrust (something) forward or upon a person, especially without warrant or invitation: to obtrude one's opinions upon others.
- outbark — to bark more than or louder than
- outbrag — to brag more than or better than
- outbred — Simple past tense and past participle of outbreed.
- outburn — (intransitive) To burn away; be consumed by fire.
- outburp — (informal, transitive, rare) To burp louder or better than.
- perturb — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
- rebuilt — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- redoubt — Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3108 meters).
- robusta — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- rub out — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rubbity — a pub
- shubert — Lee (Levi Shubert) 1875–1953, and his brothers Sam S. 1876–1905, and Jacob J. 1880–1963, U.S. theatrical managers.
- stubber — a short projecting part.
- subpart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- subrent — to sublet or rent out (a property that is already rented
- subter- — below, under, less than, secretly
- subtler — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- subvert — to overthrow (something established or existing).
- surbate — to make (feet) sore through walking
- tabular — of, relating to, or arranged in a table or systematic arrangement by columns, rows, etc., as statistics.
- tambour — Music. a drum.
- tambura — an Asian musical instrument of the lute family having a small, round body and a long neck.
- terbium — a rare-earth, metallic element present in certain minerals and yielding colorless salts. Symbol: Tb; atomic number: 65; atomic weight: 158.924; specific gravity: 8.25.
- the rub — an obstacle or difficulty (esp in the phrase there's the rub)
- thumber — a hitchhiker.
- thurber — James (Grover) [groh-ver] /ˈgroʊ vər/ (Show IPA), 1894–1961, U.S. writer, caricaturist, and illustrator.
- tilburg — a city in the S Netherlands.
- tilbury — a light two-wheeled carriage without a top.
- tipburn — a disease of lettuce, potatoes, and other plants, characterized by browning of the tips and edges of the leaves, resulting from any of several environmental factors, as excessive heat and humidity.
- to burn — in excess
- traubel — Helen, 1903–72, U.S. soprano.
- tribune — a raised platform for a speaker; a dais, rostrum, or pulpit.
- tribute — a gift, testimonial, compliment, or the like, given as due or in acknowledgment of gratitude or esteem.
- trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- tubular — having the form or shape of a tube; tubiform.
- tumbler — a person who performs leaps, somersaults, and other bodily feats.
- tumbrel — one of the carts used during the French Revolution to convey victims to the guillotine.
- tumbril — one of the carts used during the French Revolution to convey victims to the guillotine.
- turbary — land, or a piece of land, where turf or peat may be dug or cut.
- turbine — any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as a fluid passing through and entirely filling a housing around the rotor.
- turbo c — (language) Borland's C compiler for IBM PCs. Turbo C, version 1.0, was introduced by Borland in 1987. It offered the first integrated edit-compile-run development environment for C on IBM PCs. It ran in 384KB of memory. It allowed inline assembly, supported all memory models, and offered optimisations for speed, size, constant folding, and jump elimination. Version 1.5 shipped on five 360 KB diskettes of uncompressed files, and came with sample C programs, including a stripped down spreadsheet called mcalc. Turbo C 2.0 has a debugger, a fast assembler, and an extensive graphics library. Turbo C has been largely supplanted by Turbo C++, introduced circa September, 1990 for both MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.
- umberto — Humbert I.