Words starting with rub
3 letter words starting with rub
- rub — 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.
- rub along — 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.
- rub down — 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.
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- rub in — 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.
4 letter words starting with rub
- rube — Arthur Joseph, 1908–90, U.S. jurist, statesman, and diplomat: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–65; ambassador to the U.N. 1965–68.
- rubi — furigana
- ruby — a red variety of corundum, used as a gem.
- rub' al khali — a desert in S Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia, extending southeast from Nejd to Hadramaut and northeast from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
- rub` al khali — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
5 letter words starting with rub
- rubai — a verse form of Persian origin consisting of four-line stanzas
- rubby — rubbing alcohol, esp when mixed with cheap wine for drinking
- ruben — Douay Bible. Reuben (defs 1, 2).
- ruble — a silver or copper-alloy coin and monetary unit of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, equal to 100 kopecks.
- rubus — a fruit-bearing genus of shrubs including raspberries and blackberries
6 letter words starting with rub
- rubato — having certain notes arbitrarily lengthened while others are correspondingly shortened, or vice versa.
- rubbed — 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.
- rubber — (in certain card games, as bridge and whist)
- rubbia — Carlo [jahr-loh;; Italian kahr-law] /ˈdʒɑr loʊ;; Italian ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Italian physicist: Nobel prize 1984.
- rubble — broken bits and pieces of anything, as that which is demolished: Bombing reduced the town to rubble.
7 letter words starting with rub
8 letter words starting with rub
- rub-down — 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.
- rubaiyat — (in Persian poetry) a verse form consisting of four-line stanzas
- rubbaboo — a soup made from pemmican boiled in water, sometimes thickened with flour
- rubbishy — full of rubbish: a rubbishy cellar.
- rubboard — a board for scrubbing clothes on
9 letter words starting with rub
- rub-a-dub — the sound of a drum when beaten.
- rubbering — Also called India rubber, natural rubber, gum, gum elastic, caoutchouc. a highly elastic solid substance, light cream or dark amber in color, polymerized by the drying and coagulation of the latex or milky juice of rubber trees and plants, especially Hevea and Ficus species.
- rubberize — to coat or impregnate with rubber or some preparation of it.
- rubbishes — worthless, unwanted material that is rejected or thrown out; debris; litter; trash.
- rubellite — a deep-red variety of tourmaline, used as a gem.
10 letter words starting with rub
- rubberized — coated or impregnated with rubber
- rubberlike — resembling rubber
- rubberneck — to look about or stare with great curiosity, as by craning the neck or turning the head.
- rubberwear — clothing made of rubber
- rubblework — masonry built of rubble or roughly dressed stones.
11 letter words starting with rub
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rubber-base paint — latex paint.
12 letter words starting with rub
- rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
- rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
- rubber-tyred — having a tyre or tyres made of rubber
- rubbernecker — a person who rubbernecks
- ruby-crowned kinglet — an olive-gray, American kinglet, Regulus calendula, the male of which has an erectile, ruby crest.
13 letter words starting with rub
- rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
- rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
- ruby-throated hummingbird — a small hummingbird, Archilochus colubris, the only hummingbird of eastern North America, having metallic-green upper plumage and a bright red throat in the male.
14 letter words starting with rub
- rubber-chicken circuit — a monotonous round of dinners, often featuring chicken, that a lecturer or political candidate is obliged to attend.
18 letter words starting with rub
- rubidium-strontium dating — a radiometric dating method whereby the ratio of rubidium isotope to strontium in a mineral is used to calculate the age of the mineral, based on the rate of radioactive decay of rubidium to strontium.
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