10-letter words containing b, o, n, i, e
- foreboding — a prediction; portent.
- foxe basin — an ocean passage in Nunavut Territory, Canada, connected with Hudson Bay by the Foxe Channel.
- 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.
- genophobia — The physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
- genophobic — Relating to or characteristic of genophobia or genophobes.
- geobotanic — phytogeography.
- gnotobiote — a gnotobiotic animal.
- go begging — to ask for as a gift, as charity, or as a favor: to beg alms; to beg forgiveness.
- gombeenism — the practice of usury
- gooneybird — an informal name for the albatross, esp the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
- gynephobia — an abnormal fear of women.
- helleborin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 28 H 36 O 6 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.
- hemiglobin — methemoglobin.
- hemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- heronsbill — any of a genus (Erodium) of plants of the geranium family, with fine leaves and yellow, white, or reddish flowers
- hibernator — Something that hibernates.
- hobohemian — Of, or pertaining to, a hobohemia.
- hyoid bone — the horseshoe-shaped bone that lies at the base of the tongue and above the thyroid cartilage or a corresponding bone or group of bones in other vertebrates
- iceboating — the sport of using an iceboat
- in trouble — facing punishment
- inbornness — The quality or state of being inborn.
- inexorable — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
- inexorably — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
- informable — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
- ink bottle — a bottle containing ink
- inobedient — disobedient
- inoculable — capable of being inoculated.
- inoperable — not operable or practicable.
- inpossible — Obsolete spelling of impossible.
- inside job — a crime committed by or in collusion with a person or persons closely associated with the victim: The robbery seemed an inside job, because there was no evidence of forced entry.
- insobriety — lack of sobriety or moderation; intemperance; drunkenness.
- insociable — unsociable.
- insolvable — incapable of being solved or explained; insoluble.
- inviolable — prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration: an inviolable sanctuary; an inviolable promise.
- isoborneol — (organic compound) The exo-isomer of borneol.
- jacobinize — to imbue with Jacobinism.
- jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- kenophobia — an abnormal fear of empty spaces
- knobbiness — the quality or condition of being knobby
- knobkerrie — a short, heavy wooden club with a knob on one end, used especially by native peoples of South Africa for striking and throwing.
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- legoglobin — leghemoglobin.
- liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- line block — a letterpress printing block made by a photoengraving process without the use of a screen
- linerboard — a type of paperboard used especially for containers, as corrugated boxes.
- lobstering — the act, process, or business of capturing lobsters.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- mindblower — a hallucinogenic drug.
- montbretia — a widely cultivated plant of the African iridaceous genus Crocosmia, a cross between C. aurea and C. pottsii, with ornamental orange or yellow flowers, grown mostly as pot plants