10-letter words containing b, i, n, o
- iron brick — brick having a sprinkling of dark spots caused by the presence of iron salts.
- isabnormal — a line on a map or chart connecting points having an equal deviation from the normal value of some meteorological quantity, as temperature.
- isoborneol — (organic compound) The exo-isomer of borneol.
- jaborandis — Plural form of jaborandi.
- jabotinsky — Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.
- jacobinism — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jacobinize — to imbue with Jacobinism.
- jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- job action — any means, as a work slowdown, of organized protest or pressure by employees to win some goal or gain from their employers.
- jubilation — a feeling of or the expression of joy or exultation: Their jubilation subsided when they lost the second game.
- kenophobia — an abnormal fear of empty spaces
- kickboxing — a form of boxing in which the gloved combatants may also kick with bare feet.
- king cobra — a cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, that grows to a length of more than 15 feet (5 meters): the largest of the venomous snakes.
- knobbiness — the quality or condition of being knobby
- knobkerrie — a short, heavy wooden club with a knob on one end, used especially by native peoples of South Africa for striking and throwing.
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- labionasal — articulated with the lips and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as m.
- laminboard — A compound wood board consisting of thin strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of higher quality than blockboard.
- lar gibbon — white-handed gibbon.
- legoglobin — leghemoglobin.
- liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- libidinous — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- line block — a letterpress printing block made by a photoengraving process without the use of a screen
- linerboard — a type of paperboard used especially for containers, as corrugated boxes.
- lions book — (publication) "Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6", by John Lions. The two parts of this book contained the entire source listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms. These were circulated internally at the University of New South Wales beginning 1976-77, and were, for years after, the *only* detailed kernel documentation available to anyone outside Bell Labs. Because Western Electric wished to maintain trade secret status on the kernel, the Lions book was never formally published and was only supposed to be distributed to affiliates of source licensees (it is still possible to get a Bell Labs reprint of the book by sending a copy of a V6 source licence to the right person at Bellcore, but *real* insiders have the UNSW edition). In spite of this, it soon spread by samizdat to a good many of the early Unix hackers. In 1996 it was reprinted as a "classic":
- lions club — any of the local clubs that form the International Association of Lions Clubs, formed in the US in 1917 to foster local and international good relations and service to the community
- lobstering — the act, process, or business of capturing lobsters.
- lobtailing — (of a whale) to slap the flukes against the surface of the water.
- lobulation — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- lombrosian — of or relating to the doctrine propounded by the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that criminals are a product of hereditary and atavistic factors and can be classified as a definite abnormal type
- lowballing — the practice of offering a customer a deceptively low price
- mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- mindblower — a hallucinogenic drug.
- misbuttons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misbutton.
- mobilising — Present participle of mobilise.
- mobilizing — Present participle of mobilize.
- monohybrid — the offspring of individuals that differ with respect to a particular gene pair.
- monophobia — an abnormal fear of being alone.
- mons pubis — a rounded prominence of fatty tissue over the pubic symphysis, covered with hair after puberty.
- montbretia — a widely cultivated plant of the African iridaceous genus Crocosmia, a cross between C. aurea and C. pottsii, with ornamental orange or yellow flowers, grown mostly as pot plants
- moon-blind — (of horses) afflicted with moon blindness; moon-eyed.
- morbidness — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- moribundly — In a moribund way.
- mozambican — a native or inhabitant of the territory or city of Mozambique.
- muni bonds — Muni bonds are bonds issued by local municipal governments on which the interest is often tax-free.
- muttonbird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- mycobionts — Plural form of mycobiont.