10-letter words containing b, o, r, u
- luluabourg — former name of Kananga.
- lumbersome — unwieldy; cumbrous
- lumbricoid — resembling an earthworm.
- luxembourg — a grand duchy surrounded by Germany, France, and Belgium. 999 sq. mi. (2585 sq. km).
- macroburst — (meteorology) A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
- membranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
- microburst — an intense, localized downdraft of air that spreads on the ground, causing rapid changes in wind direction and speed; a localized downburst.
- microbuses — Plural form of microbus.
- microtubes — Plural form of microtube.
- morbillous — of, relating to, or resembling measles
- moribundly — In a moribund way.
- mossbunker — the menhaden.
- motorbuses — Plural form of motorbus.
- moucharaby — a projecting second-storey window or balcony enclosed with latticework
- mouldboard — A curved blade on a plough that serves to turn over the furrow.
- multilobar — of or relating to a lobe, as of the lungs.
- muttonbird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- neuroblast — an immature nerve cell.
- new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
- nondurable — not resistant to wear, decay, etc.; not sturdy: nondurable fabrics.
- nonfibrous — Not fibrous.
- northbound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- nubiferous — cloud-bringing, cloud-bearing, or full of cloud
- number off — to call out or cause to call out one's number or place in a sequence, esp in a rank of soldiers
- number one — oneself, especially one's own well-being or interests: to look out for number one.
- number two — someone or something that is second in rank, order, or importance.
- obdurately — In an obdurate manner; stubbornly, intractably or inflexibly.
- obduration — the process of becoming or the state of being obdurate, intractable and indifferent
- oberhausen — a city in W Germany, in the lower Ruhr valley.
- obfuscator — Agent noun of obfuscate; one who obfuscates.
- obituaries — Plural form of obituary.
- obituarist — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- objuration — (rare) A firm binding by oath.
- objurgated — Simple past tense and past participle of objurgate.
- objurgates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of objurgate.
- obscurants — Plural form of obscurant.
- obstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of obstruct.
- obstructer — Someone who obstructs, agent noun of obstruct.
- obstructor — Obstructer.
- obstruents — Plural form of obstruent.
- obstrusive — Misspelling of obtrusive.
- obtruncate — to slice or chop off the head or top part of
- obturation — to stop up; close.
- obturators — Plural form of obturator.
- ogdensburg — a city in NE New York, on the St. Lawrence River.
- oil burner — a furnace, boiler, or other device that burns fuel oil.
- opprobrium — the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.