10-letter words containing b, e, u
- obsequious — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
- obstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of obstruct.
- obstructer — Someone who obstructs, agent noun of obstruct.
- obstruents — Plural form of obstruent.
- obstrusive — Misspelling of obtrusive.
- obtruncate — to slice or chop off the head or top part of
- obtuseness — not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.
- occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- off-budget — not included in the regular federal budget; funded through separate agencies.
- ogdensburg — a city in NE New York, on the St. Lawrence River.
- oil burner — a furnace, boiler, or other device that burns fuel oil.
- omnibusses — (dated) Plural form of omnibus.
- on the bum — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- orangeburg — a city in central South Carolina.
- orbiculate — orbicular; rounded.
- oubliettes — Plural form of oubliette.
- out-basket — out-box.
- outbalance — to outweigh.
- outbluster — to surpass in blustering
- outbreathe — to breathe out
- outnumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outnumber.
- outrebound — to exceed in rebounding
- over-abuse — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- overabound — (intransitive) To be too abundant or plentiful.
- overblouse — a blouse designed to be worn outside the waistband of a skirt or a pair of slacks.
- overbought — marked by prices considered unjustifiably high because of extensive buying: The stock market is overbought now. Compare oversold.
- overbounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbound.
- overbrutal — excessively brutal
- overbudget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overburden — to load with too great a burden; overload: He was overburdened with cares.
- overbuying — Present participle of overbuy.
- overdubbed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdub.
- overlabour — excessive toil
- oversubtle — too subtle (so as to be unnoticed)
- paperbound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
- pearl blue — a light bluish gray.
- pepperbush — sweet pepperbush.
- perdurable — very durable; permanent; imperishable.
- permutable — to alter; change.
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- perrysburg — a town in NW Ohio.
- perturbant — a thing that causes perturbance
- perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- petersburg — a city in SE Virginia: besieged by Union forces 1864–65.
- picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- pine bluff — a city in central Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
- pitot tube — (often lowercase) an instrument for measuring fluid velocity, consisting of a narrow tube, one end of which is open and faces upstream, the other end being connected to a manometer.
- ploughable — able to be ploughed
- plumb line — a cord with a lead bob attached to one end, used to determine perpendicularity, the depth of water, etc. Compare plumb (def 1).