Words starting with rubit
Maybe these words will be useful:
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- rubicon — a river in N Italy flowing E into the Adriatic. 15 miles (24 km) long: in crossing this ancient boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy, to march against Pompey in 49 b.c., Julius Caesar made a major military commitment.
- rubicund — red or reddish; ruddy: a rubicund complexion.
- rubidium — a silver-white, metallic, active element resembling potassium, used in photoelectric cells and radio vacuum tubes. Symbol: Rb; atomic weight: 85.47; atomic number: 37; specific gravity: 1.53 at 20°C.
- 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.
- rubied — having a color like that of a ruby; deep red.
- rubier — a red variety of corundum, used as a gem.
- rubify — to make red; redden: a distant fire that rubified the sky.
- rubiginous — rusty; rust-colored; brownish-red.
- rubik cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.