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10-letter words containing a, b, e, n

  • blues band — a band that plays the blues
  • bomb lance — a harpoon fitted with an explosive head.
  • bon marche — a bargain.
  • bon voyage — You say 'bon voyage' to someone who is going on a journey, as a way of saying goodbye and wishing them good luck.
  • bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
  • bond paper — a superior quality of strong white paper, used esp for writing and typing
  • bone black — a fine charcoal made by burning animal bones in closed containers: used as a pigment, in refining sugar, etc.
  • bone china — Bone china is a kind of thin china that contains powdered bone.
  • bone earth — bone ash.
  • boneheaded — a foolish or stupid person; blockhead.
  • boneshaker — an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs
  • boniface i — Saint, died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
  • boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
  • bonne amie — a good female friend.
  • bonnethead — a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, found in shallow waters from Brazil to Massachusetts, having a spade-shaped head.
  • bonnilasse — a pretty girl
  • bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
  • borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.
  • bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
  • bra burner — a contemptuous term used to refer to an ardent or militant feminist or to someone perceived as such.
  • bra-burner — a contemptuous term used to refer to an ardent or militant feminist or to someone perceived as such.
  • bracketing — a set of brackets
  • brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
  • brain stem — the portion of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord and comprises the medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain, and parts of the hypothalamus, functioning in the control of reflexes and such essential internal mechanisms as respiration and heartbeat.
  • brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz
  • brain-dead — If someone is declared brain-dead, they have suffered brain death.
  • brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
  • brake band — a strip of fabric, leather, or metal tightened around a pulley or shaft to act as a brake
  • branchiate — having gills.
  • brand name — The brand name of a product is the name the manufacturer gives it and under which it is sold.
  • brand-name — having or being a brand name: nationally known brand-name food products.
  • brandering — furring (def 4b).
  • brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
  • brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
  • brass neck — effrontery; nerve
  • brassiness — made of or covered with brass.
  • brattiness — the quality of being bratty
  • brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
  • brazenness — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
  • bread line — a line of people waiting to be given food as government relief or private charity
  • breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
  • break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
  • break even — to attain a level of activity, as in commerce, or a point of operation, as in gambling, at which there is neither profit nor loss
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • break-even — having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
  • breakdance — to perform break dancing.
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