10-letter words containing b, i, o, n
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- bete noire — If you refer to someone or something as your bete noire, you mean that you have a particular dislike for them or that they annoy you a great deal.
- bi-monthly — occurring every two months.
- bibliogony — the art of producing and publishing books.
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bidonville — a shanty town
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- bigfooting — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- bikini top — the part of a bikini worn over the breasts
- bilocation — the existence of something in two places at the same time
- binational — involving two nations
- binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- binoxalate — an acid containing the group HC 2 O 4 –, as ammonium binoxalate, C 2 H 5 NO 4 ⋅H 2 O.
- biobanking — the practice of creating large-scale repositories of human biological material (eg blood, urine, tissue samples, DNA, etc) designed to further medical research
- biobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- biocenosis — a community of biologically integrated and interdependent plants and animals
- biocentric — centered in life; having life as its principal fact.
- biocontrol — the use of one living thing to control another
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
- bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
- biofouling — the degradation of an artificial surface by biological growth
- biogenesis — the principle that a living organism must originate from a parent organism similar to itself
- biogenetic — genetic engineering.
- biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
- bionically — utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body: The scientist used a bionic arm to examine the radioactive material.
- bioorganic — pertaining to the composition and biological activity of carbon-based compounds, especially those of laboratory rather than biogenic origin (contrasted with bioinorganic).
- bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
- bioscience — the life sciences collectively
- birthstone — a precious or semiprecious stone associated with a month or sign of the zodiac and thought to bring luck if worn by a person born in that month or under that sign
- bisphenoid — a tetrahedral form, each edge of which is bisected by the perpendicular bisecting the edge that does not intersect it.
- bitonality — the quality of two musical keys being played simultaneously
- bittorrent — a file transfer protocol which enables users to upload and download large files on the internet in the form of software, games, film, video, music, etc, from other users rather than from a central server
- bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
- blanquillo — any of several game fishes of the genus Caulolatilus, related to the tilefishes.
- blazonings — heraldic adornments
- blind copy — a copy of a letter or the like, the original of which bears no evidence that the copy was sent to some other person.
- blind door — a door having louvers permitting circulation of air.
- blind hole — a hole whose green cannot be seen by the approaching golfer because of trees or other obstructions.
- blind spot — If you say that someone has a blind spot about something, you mean that they seem to be unable to understand it or to see how important it is.
- blind-spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- blind-worm — a limbless European lizard, Anguis fragilis, related to the glass lizards.
- blindstory — a windowless story
- block line — a rope or cable used in a block and tackle
- bloodiness — the state of being bloody
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- bloviation — a lengthy but insubstantial speech
- blowing up — a reprimand