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10-letter words containing b, o, l, u

  • bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
  • bull moose — a member of the Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912
  • bull trout — any large trout, esp the salmon trout
  • bull-nosed — having a rounded end
  • bulldogged — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
  • bulldogger — a person who brings an animal, esp a steer, to the ground by twisting its head from the horns
  • bulletwood — the wood of a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, widely used for construction due to its durability and toughness
  • bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
  • bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
  • bullroarer — a wooden slat attached to a thong that makes a roaring sound when the thong is whirled: used esp by native Australians in religious rites
  • bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
  • 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
  • bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
  • bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
  • burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
  • bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
  • buttonball — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
  • buttonhold — to buttonhole a person
  • buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
  • buttonless — having no button or buttons.
  • buttonmold — a small disk of wood, metal, etc., which is covered as with cloth or leather to form a button
  • butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
  • buy-to-let — of or relating to the practice of buying a property to let to tenants rather than to live in onself
  • buzz along — a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
  • cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
  • calico bug — harlequin bug.
  • canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
  • celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
  • choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
  • chubb lock — a type of lock with a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
  • clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
  • cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
  • cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)
  • cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
  • club-house — a building or room occupied by a club.
  • clubfooted — Having a clubfoot.
  • clubhouses — Plural form of clubhouse.
  • co-publish — to publish (something) with another person or company
  • coagulable — that can be coagulated
  • cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
  • cockleburr — Alternative form of cocklebur.
  • cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
  • colour bar — discrimination against people of a different race, esp as practised by White people against Black people
  • colourable — capable of being coloured
  • colourbred — (of an animal) bred to be a particular colour
  • columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
  • columbines — Plural form of columbine.
  • commutable — (of a punishment) capable of being reduced in severity
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