10-letter words containing b, n, u
- cotton bud — A cotton bud is a small stick with a ball of cotton wool at each end, which people use, for example, for applying make-up.
- coulterneb — The puffin.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- counterbug — (humour) A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
- croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach
- crumblings — any pieces of matter which have crumbled or fallen from a larger part
- crunchable — That can be crunched.
- cuban heel — a moderately high heel for a shoe or boot
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cumberment — an obstruction or hindrance
- cummerbund — A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress.
- curb reins — reins attached to a curb bit
- curbstones — Plural form of curbstone.
- cuttlebone — the internal calcareous shell of the cuttlefish, used as a mineral supplement to the diet of cage-birds and as a polishing agent
- cyberbunny — (abuse) Someone who knows absolutely nothing about computers and advises people who know absolutely nothing about computers. The term is used mostly on AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve, etc.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- debentures — Plural form of debenture.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- debutantes — Plural form of debutante.
- decumbence — The act or posture of lying down.
- decumbency — Decumbence.
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- deurbanize — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- disabusing — Present participle of disabuse.
- disburdens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disburden.
- disbursing — Present participle of disburse.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- disturbant — having a disturbing effect, disquieting
- disturbing — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- doubleness — the quality or condition of being double.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubtingly — In a doubting manner.
- downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- drug baron — the head of an organization that deals in illegal drugs
- dubitation — doubt.
- duisenberg — Willem Frederik, known as Wim. 1935–2005, Dutch economist; president of the European Central Bank (1998–2003)
- dumb bunny — a stupid person.
- dumbfounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dumbfound.
- dumbsizing — Present participle of dumbsize.
- dune buggy — vehicle used on sand
- dune-buggy — to drive or ride in a dune buggy.
- dust bunny — Slang. a loose, tangled ball of dust, lint, hair, etc., especially as found under a low piece of furniture.
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- duty-bound — If you say you are duty-bound to do something, you are emphasizing that you feel it is your duty to do it.
- dvd burner — A DVD burner is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a computer onto a DVD.