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15-letter words containing u, b, e, r

  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combat trousers — Combat trousers are large, loose trousers with lots of pockets.
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
  • compton-burnett — Dame Ivy. 1884–1969, English novelist. Her novels include Men and Wives (1931) and Mother and Son (1955)
  • computer-phobia — a person who distrusts or is intimidated by computers.
  • concrete number — a number referring to a particular object or objects, as in three dogs, ten men
  • cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
  • counterbalances — Plural form of counterbalance.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • countersubjects — Plural form of countersubject.
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • counting number — natural number
  • coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • cranberry juice — the juice of cranberries
  • cranberry sauce — a sauce made from cranberries, often eaten with turkey
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • cry blue murder — to make an outcry
  • cucumber beetle — any leaf beetle of the genus Diabrotica and related genera that feeds on cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family and is a vector of cucurbit wilt.
  • cucumber mosaic — a viral disease of cucumbers and many other plants, characterized by a mosaic pattern and distortion of leaves and fruits.
  • current balance — an instrument for measuring electric currents, in which the magnetic force between two current-carrying coils is balanced against a weight.
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • de bruijn graph — (mathematics)   A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
  • dead and buried — If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future.
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • debureaucratize — to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • decubitus ulcer — a chronic ulcer of the skin and underlying tissues caused by prolonged pressure on the body surface of bedridden patients
  • departure board — a board in an airport, bus terminal, etc displaying the times and destinations of future departures
  • destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
  • destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
  • double entendre — a double meaning.
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