10-letter words containing b, o, n, e, c
- 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".
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- crazy bone — funny bone
- crossbones — a representation of two thighbones placed across each other, usually under that of a skull, used as a symbol of death or danger
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- 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
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- decaborane — (inorganic compound) The stable borane B10H14.
- endamoebic — relating to endamebae
- endobiotic — (of a parasite or symbiont) living within the tissues of a host.
- enforcable — Misspelling of enforceable.
- enforcible — Capable of being enforced.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- frontbench — Alternative form of front bench.
- genophobic — Relating to or characteristic of genophobia or genophobes.
- geobotanic — phytogeography.
- honeybunch — honey (def 6, 7).
- honeycombs — Plural form of honeycomb.
- hucklebone — hipbone.
- iceboating — the sport of using an iceboat
- inoculable — capable of being inoculated.
- insociable — unsociable.
- jacobethan — noting or pertaining to the architecture of England at the beginning of the 17th century.
- jacobinize — to imbue with Jacobinism.
- job centre — In Britain, a job centre is a place where people who are looking for work can go to get advice on finding a job, and to look at advertisements placed by people who are looking for new employees.
- knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
- line block — a letterpress printing block made by a photoengraving process without the use of a screen
- long beach — a city in SW California, S of Los Angeles: a seaside resort.
- lunchboxes — Plural form of lunchbox.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- net blotch — a disease of barley, characterized by a brown, netlike discoloration of the leaves, caused by fungi of the genus Helminthosporium.
- nicobarese — a member of a people or group of peoples inhabiting the Nicobar Islands.
- non-breach — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- noncabinet — not related to or belonging to a government cabinet
- nonobscene — not obscene
- nonsubject — (in education) a subject of study not considered to be academically rigorous
- noticeable — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- noticeably — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- nucleobase — (biochemistry) The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.
- obeisances — Plural form of obeisance.
- obesogenic — Tending to cause obesity.
- objections — Plural form of objection.
- objectness — The state of being an object.
- obrenovich — Alexander, Alexander I (def 3).
- obsequence — willingness or eagerness to comply, please, serve, etc.; obsequiousness.