10-letter words containing b, o, u, n, t
- buttonball — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
- buttonbush — a N American shrub of the genus Cephalanthus
- buttondown — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
- buttonhold — to buttonhole a person
- buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
- buttonhook — a thin tapering hooked instrument formerly used for pulling buttons through the buttonholes of gloves, shoes, etc
- buttonless — having no button or buttons.
- buttonmold — a small disk of wood, metal, etc., which is covered as with cloth or leather to form a button
- buttonwood — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
- butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
- cannot but — You use cannot but, could not but, and cannot help but when you want to emphasize that you believe something must be true and that there is no possibility of anything else being the case.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- combusting — Present participle of combust.
- combustion — Combustion is the act of burning something or the process of burning.
- confutable — (archaic, or, formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
- consubsist — to subsist together
- contribute — If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
- cotton bud — A cotton bud is a small stick with a ball of cotton wool at each end, which people use, for example, for applying make-up.
- 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".
- croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach
- 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
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubtingly — In a doubting manner.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- dubitation — doubt.
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- duty-bound — If you say you are duty-bound to do something, you are emphasizing that you feel it is your duty to do it.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- eboulement — a collapse; cave-in.
- ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- extubation — (medicine) The removal of a tube inserted by intubation.
- fabulation — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- fly button — a button on the fly of a pair of trousers
- frostbound — (of ground) hardened by frost
- gothenburg — Göteborg.
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- gubernator — a governor
- hang about — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hot button — exciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional: hot-button issues.
- hot number — sth popular
- hot-button — exciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional: hot-button issues.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- immunoblot — a technique used to transfer a pattern of proteins