10-letter words containing b, l, u, n
- blue rinse — a rinse for tinting grey hair a silvery-blue colour
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- blue-green — a color about midway between blue and green in the spectrum.
- blue-rinse — of, for, or composed mostly of elderly women: the blue-rinse matinee audience.
- bluebonnet — a broad, flat cap of blue woolen cloth, formerly worn in Scotland
- blues band — a band that plays the blues
- bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blurriness — blurred; indistinct.
- blurringly — in a manner which causes blurring
- blush wine — any of certain wines similar in style to dry white wine although slightly pink in color: made like rosé from red-wine grapes, and often named by the grape's name preceded by “white,” as white zinfandel
- bogon flux — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See quantum bogodynamics.
- bonus ball — (in the National Lottery draw) a ball randomly selected after the first six balls, containing a number which influences the amount of prize money paid
- book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- box column — a hollow wooden column, as for a porch, usually having a rectangular cross section.
- brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
- brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
- brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
- bubbliness — full of, producing, or characterized by bubbles.
- bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- build down — a process for reducing armaments, especially the number of nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., by eliminating several older weapons for each new one that is deployed.
- build into — to make (something) a definite part of (a contract, agreement, etc)
- build-down — a gradual decrease in nuclear weapons, armed forces, etc., esp. by an agreement in which a smaller number of newer weapons would replace older ones
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- bull snake — any burrowing North American nonvenomous colubrid snake of the genus Pituophis, typically having yellow and brown markings
- bull-nosed — having a rounded end
- bulletined — a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public.
- bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
- bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
- bumblingly — in a bumbling manner
- bump along — advance unevenly
- bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling
- bunglingly — in a bungling manner
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- bunny girl — a night-club hostess whose costume includes a rabbit-like tail and ears
- bunny hill — a nursery slope
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.