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10-letter words containing b, r, u, n, t

  • paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
  • perturbant — a thing that causes perturbance
  • perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
  • puberulent — minutely pubescent.
  • returnable — that may be returned: returnable merchandise.
  • robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
  • 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.
  • rubinstein — Anton [an-ton;; Russian uhn-tawn] /ˈæn tɒn;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn/ (Show IPA), 1829–94, Russian pianist and composer.
  • run a bath — to turn on the taps to fill a bath with water for bathing oneself
  • saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
  • stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
  • stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
  • subcentral — near or almost to the center.
  • 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.
  • subcurrent — a not clearly revealed or formulated direction of thought, intention, action, etc., underlying what is manifested: His words, though ostensibly friendly, betrayed a subcurrent of hostility.
  • subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
  • subnatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
  • subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
  • 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).
  • substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
  • subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
  • subterrane — a cave or subterranean room.
  • subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
  • tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.
  • tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
  • tax burden — the amount of tax paid by a person, company, or country in a specified period considered as a proportion of total income in that period.
  • tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
  • the burren — a limestone area on the North Clare coast in the Irish Republic, famous for its wild flowers, caves, and dolmens
  • thumbprint — a mark or impression of the ventral surface of the last joint of the thumb.
  • thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
  • thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
  • tourbillon — a device in a mechanical watch which prevents errors due to changes in gravity
  • tube train — an underground train, esp in London
  • tuber fern — a tropical, erect fern, Nephrolepis cordifolia, having sharply toothed and numerously segmented fronds.
  • tuberculin — a sterile liquid prepared from cultures of the tubercle bacillus, used in the diagnosis and, formerly, in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • tubularian — a hydroid of the family Tubulariidae, with polyps that are tubular in form
  • turbinated — shaped like a top
  • turbotrain — a train powered by a gas-turbine locomotive.
  • turbulence — the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
  • turbulency — the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
  • turnbroach — (formerly) a servant whose job was to turn the spit on which meat, poultry, etc, was roasting
  • turnbuckle — a link or sleeve with a swivel at one end and an internal screw thread at the other, or with an internal screw thread at each end, used as a means of uniting or coupling, and of tightening, two parts, as the ends of two rods.
  • ulan bator — a republic in E central Asia, in N Mongolia. About 600,000 sq. mi. (1,500,000 sq. km). Capital: Ulan Bator.
  • unbattered — not battered, beaten, or abused
  • unberthing — a shelflike sleeping space, as on a ship, airplane, or railroad car.
  • unbetrayed — not betrayed
  • unbettered — not bettered or improved
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