10-letter words containing b, o, u, n
- 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.
- nonobvious — Not obvious.
- nonsoluble — capable of being dissolved or liquefied: a soluble powder.
- nonsubject — (in education) a subject of study not considered to be academically rigorous
- northbound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- nose about — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- nouadhibou — a seaport in SW Mauritania.
- nubiferous — cloud-bringing, cloud-bearing, or full of cloud
- nubigenous — produced from clouds; cloud-born
- nucleobase — (biochemistry) The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.
- 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.
- 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.
- objuration — (rare) A firm binding by oath.
- obnoctious — Obsolete form of obnoxious.
- obnubilate — to cloud over; becloud; obscure.
- obscurants — Plural form of obscurant.
- obsequence — willingness or eagerness to comply, please, serve, etc.; obsequiousness.
- obstruents — Plural form of obstruent.
- obtruncate — to slice or chop off the head or top part of
- obturation — to stop up; close.
- obtuseness — not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.
- ogdensburg — a city in NE New York, on the St. Lawrence River.
- oil burner — a furnace, boiler, or other device that burns fuel oil.
- omnibusses — (dated) Plural form of omnibus.
- on the bum — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- orangeburg — a city in central South Carolina.
- outbalance — to outweigh.
- outbargain — to surpass in bargaining
- outbidding — Present participle of outbid.
- outbraving — Present participle of outbrave.
- outnumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outnumber.
- outrebound — to exceed in rebounding
- overabound — (intransitive) To be too abundant or plentiful.
- overbounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbound.
- overburden — to load with too great a burden; overload: He was overburdened with cares.
- overbuying — Present participle of overbuy.
- paperbound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- punch bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- punch-bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- pushbutton — A pushbutton machine or process is controlled by means of buttons or switches.
- razor burn — soreness on the face caused by shaving