10-letter words containing b, o, t, u, e
- obtuseness — not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.
- off-budget — not included in the regular federal budget; funded through separate agencies.
- on the bum — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- orbiculate — orbicular; rounded.
- oubliettes — Plural form of oubliette.
- out-basket — out-box.
- outbalance — to outweigh.
- outbluster — to surpass in blustering
- outbreathe — to breathe out
- outnumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outnumber.
- outrebound — to exceed in rebounding
- overbought — marked by prices considered unjustifiably high because of extensive buying: The stock market is overbought now. Compare oversold.
- overbrutal — excessively brutal
- overbudget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- oversubtle — too subtle (so as to be unnoticed)
- pitot tube — (often lowercase) an instrument for measuring fluid velocity, consisting of a narrow tube, one end of which is open and faces upstream, the other end being connected to a manometer.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- put to bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- quodlibets — Plural form of quodlibet.
- radio tube — a vacuum tube used in a radio receiving set.
- retributor — a person who retributes
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- sauce boat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- self-doubt — lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.
- soubriquet — sobriquet.
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- stock cube — bouillon cube used for gravy, etc.
- sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
- sub-sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subject to — under the condition that
- subjection — the act of subjecting.
- submontane — under or beneath a mountain or mountains.
- suboctuple — in the proportion or ratio of one to eight
- subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- subsection — a part or division of a section.
- subsociety — a subdivision of a society
- subvention — a grant of money, as by a government or some other authority, in aid or support of some institution or undertaking, especially in connection with science or the arts.
- tablemount — guyot
- tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.