9-letter words containing u, b, i, e
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
- duikerbok — duiker.
- ebullient — overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited: The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- epilobium — a plant from the genus Epilobium, such as willow-herb
- equitable — Fair and impartial.
- equitably — In an equitable manner.
- essequibo — a river in Guyana, rising near the Brazilian border and flowing north to the Atlantic: drains over half of Guyana. Length: 1014 km (630 miles)
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- excalibur — (in Arthurian legend) the magic sword of King Arthur
- febricula — a slight and short fever, especially when of obscure causation.
- febrifuge — serving to dispel or reduce fever, as a medicine.
- figurable — Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
- fungibles — Plural form of fungible.
- furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- furbisher — One who furbishes; especially, a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.
- furbishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of furbish.
- futabatei — Shimei [shee-mey] /ʃiˈmeɪ/ (Show IPA), (Tatsunosuke Hasegawa) 1864–1909, Japanese author.
- globulite — (mineral) A rudimentary spherical form of crystallite.
- glyburide — a hypoglycemic substance, C 23 H 28 ClN 3 O 5 S, used orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- guidebook — a book of directions, advice, and information, especially for travelers or tourists.
- habituate — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- herbarium — a collection of dried plants systematically arranged.
- hidebound — narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- homebuilt — Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
- humbert i — (Umberto I) 1844–1900, king of Italy 1878–1900.
- ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
- imbuement — to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.: The new political leader was imbued with the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
- immutable — not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.
- imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- inaudible — not audible; incapable of being heard.
- inbounded — Simple past tense and past participle of inbound.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- incunable — a book constituting part of a collection of incunabula.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- inducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- indurable — Archaic form of endurable.
- inebrious — (archaic) intoxicated; drunk.
- inequable — uneven
- infusible — capable of being infused.
- insoluble — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- interclub — a heavy stick, usually thicker at one end than at the other, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
- intubated — Simple past tense and past participle of intubate.
- intubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intubate.