10-letter words containing b, o, u, s
- bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- blood lust — If you say that someone is driven by a blood lust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
- bloomsburg — a city in E central Pennsylvania.
- bloomsbury — a district of central London in the borough of Camden: contains the British Museum, part of the University of London, and many publishers' offices
- blottesque — (of a painting) crudely executed, often characterized by blots and smears
- blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
- blue goose — a variety of the snow goose that has a bluish-grey body and white head and neck
- blue lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- body scrub — a product designed to exfoliate the skin
- bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
- bois brule — métis (def 2).
- bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
- boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
- bomb squad — a squad or force of police officers or others trained to disarm bombs and other explosive devices.
- bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- bonus baby — an athlete who is paid a substantial bonus to sign his or her first professional contract.
- bonus ball — (in the National Lottery draw) a ball randomly selected after the first six balls, containing a number which influences the amount of prize money paid
- bonus pack — anything sold with a product and marketed as a useful and free extra
- book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
- book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
- boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
- bosun bird — tropic bird.
- bottoms up — Some people say bottoms up to each other just before drinking an alcoholic drink.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- bourbonism — support for the rule of the Bourbons, the European royal line that ruled in France, Spain, and Naples and Sicily at various times in the late 16th to early 20th centuries
- bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- box supper — a social gathering, as at a church, at which box lunches donated by women are auctioned off to raise funds
- boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
- brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- buffo bass — (in Italian opera of the 18th century) a bass singer who performs such a comic part
- buffoonish — resembling or in the manner of a buffoon
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- bull moose — a member of the Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912
- bull-nosed — having a rounded end
- bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
- bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling