10-letter words containing b, o, u, r, n
- nonfibrous — Not fibrous.
- northbound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- nubiferous — cloud-bringing, cloud-bearing, or full of cloud
- 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.
- obscurants — Plural form of obscurant.
- obstruents — Plural form of obstruent.
- obtruncate — to slice or chop off the head or top part of
- obturation — to stop up; close.
- ogdensburg — a city in NE New York, on the St. Lawrence River.
- oil burner — a furnace, boiler, or other device that burns fuel oil.
- orangeburg — a city in central South Carolina.
- outbargain — to surpass in bargaining
- 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.
- 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.
- razor burn — soreness on the face caused by shaving
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- 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.
- rub off on — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
- rubiginous — rusty; rust-colored; brownish-red.
- rumbullion — a drink of rum
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- soundboard — sounding board.
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- sub-reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- subcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- subjoinder — something subjoined, as an additional comment.
- submersion — to submerge.
- subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
- 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).
- subversion — an act or instance of subverting.