10-letter words containing b, o, n, e
- bone china — Bone china is a kind of thin china that contains powdered bone.
- bone earth — bone ash.
- bone felon — felon2 .
- bone up on — If you bone up on a subject, you try to find out about it or remind yourself of what you have already learned about it.
- bone white — any of various shades of grayish or yellowish white
- boneheaded — a foolish or stupid person; blockhead.
- bonesetter — a person who sets broken or dislocated bones, esp one who has no formal medical qualifications
- boneshaker — an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs
- bonhoeffer — Dietrich (ˈdiːtrɪç). 1906–45, German Lutheran theologian: executed by the Nazis
- boniface i — Saint, died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
- boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
- bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
- bonne amie — a good female friend.
- bonne nuit — good night
- bonnet top — a top to a secretary, highboy, etc., following in outline a broken pediment on the front.
- bonnethead — a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, found in shallow waters from Brazil to Massachusetts, having a spade-shaped head.
- bonnetiere — a tall, narrow wardrobe of the 18th century, found especially in Normandy and Brittany.
- bonneville — Lake, a prehistoric lake in Utah, E Nevada, and S Idaho: Great Salt Lake is its remnant. 350 miles (564 km) long.
- bonnilasse — a pretty girl
- bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
- book token — a gift token to be exchanged for books
- book-ended — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
- bookbinder — A bookbinder is a person whose job is fastening books together and putting covers on them.
- boondocker — combat boot.
- boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
- boot money — unofficial bonuses in the form of illegal cash payments made by a professional sports club to its players
- boozehound — a person who drinks excessive amounts of alcohol regularly
- borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.
- borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
- boringness — the quality of being boring
- bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
- bottlenose — a kind of whale or dolphin
- bottomness — the number of bottom antiquarks minus the number of bottom quarks in a particle
- 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.
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- bowed down — weighed down; troubled
- bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- box number — A box number is a number used as an address, for example one given by a newspaper for replies to a private advertisement, or one used by an organization for the letters sent to it.
- box wrench — a wrench with a completely enclosed head, used to hold and turn nuts and bolts
- boy wonder — a young man who is extremely good at a particular activity or who has a particular talent or skill
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.