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10-letter words containing b, o, u, r, d

  • earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
  • floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
  • flower bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
  • fluoboride — (chemistry) Any borofluoride.
  • flushboard — Alternative form of flashboard.
  • frostbound — (of ground) hardened by frost
  • full board — accommodation: room and meals
  • furbelowed — Simple past tense and past participle of furbelow.
  • 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.
  • guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
  • hard-bound — hardcover
  • hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
  • jute board — a strong, bendable cardboard made from rags and sulfite, used chiefly in the manufacture of shipping cartons.
  • labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.
  • ludibrious — (obsolete) sportive; wanton.
  • lumbricoid — resembling an earthworm.
  • moribundly — In a moribund way.
  • mouldboard — A curved blade on a plough that serves to turn over the furrow.
  • 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.
  • nondurable — not resistant to wear, decay, etc.; not sturdy: nondurable fabrics.
  • northbound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
  • obdurately — In an obdurate manner; stubbornly, intractably or inflexibly.
  • obduration — the process of becoming or the state of being obdurate, intractable and indifferent
  • objurgated — Simple past tense and past participle of objurgate.
  • obstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of obstruct.
  • ogdensburg — a city in NE New York, on the St. Lawrence River.
  • outrebound — to exceed in rebounding
  • overabound — (intransitive) To be too abundant or plentiful.
  • overbounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbound.
  • overbudget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
  • overburden — to load with too great a burden; overload: He was overburdened with cares.
  • overdubbed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdub.
  • paperbound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • 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.
  • radio tube — a vacuum tube used in a radio receiving set.
  • rock-bound — hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky: the rock-bound coast of Maine.
  • roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
  • roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
  • scrubboard — washboard (defs 1, 2).
  • scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
  • soundboard — sounding board.
  • stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
  • 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.
  • subcordate — almost heart-shaped
  • subjoinder — something subjoined, as an additional comment.
  • subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
  • subproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
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