10-letter words containing b, o, u, n
- contribute — If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- 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
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- doubleness — the quality or condition of being double.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubtingly — In a doubting manner.
- downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- drug baron — the head of an organization that deals in illegal drugs
- dubitation — doubt.
- dumbfounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dumbfound.
- 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.
- euglobulin — a fraction of serum globulin which is soluble in saline solutions and insoluble in distilled water
- extubation — (medicine) The removal of a tube inserted by intubation.
- fabulation — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- fly button — a button on the fly of a pair of trousers
- frostbound — (of ground) hardened by frost
- full-blown — fully or completely developed: full-blown AIDS; an idea expanded into a full-blown novel.
- funny bone — the part of the elbow where the ulnar nerve passes by the internal condyle of the humerus, which when struck causes a peculiar, tingling sensation in the arm and hand; crazy bone.
- funny book — comic book.
- gobi burin — a wedge-shaped engraving tool made by Pleistocene hunters on both the Asian and American sides of the Bering Strait.
- gothenburg — Göteborg.
- ground bug — any member of a family (Lygaeidae) of hemipterous plant-eating insects, having generally dark bodies, sometimes marked with red, and lighter, yellowish wings
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- groundball — Alternative form of ground ball.
- gubernator — a governor
- half-bound — bound in half binding.
- hand-bound — (of books) bound by hand.
- 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.
- harbouring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard-bound — hardcover
- haubergeon — a short, sleeveless coat of mail.