10-letter words containing b, r, u, n
- 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.
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- 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.
- perturbant — a thing that causes perturbance
- perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- pre-number — a numeral or group of numerals.
- 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.
- puberulent — minutely pubescent.
- 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.
- purblindly — in a purblind manner
- razor burn — soreness on the face caused by shaving
- rebuilding — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- rebukingly — in a severe and disapproving manner
- recumbency — lying down; reclining; leaning.
- refundable — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- refuse bin — a bin for the disposal of rubbish and waste
- regensburg — a city in central Bavaria, in SE Germany, on the Danube: battle 1809.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- returnable — that may be returned: returnable merchandise.
- rhumb line — a curve on the surface of a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle. It is the path taken by a vessel or aircraft that maintains a constant compass direction.
- rickburner — an arsonist who sets fire to haystacks
- 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.
- rubberneck — to look about or stare with great curiosity, as by craning the neck or turning the head.
- rubenesque — of or relating to the painter Peter Paul Rubens or his works, which feature full-figured women.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
- rubiginous — rusty; rust-colored; brownish-red.
- rubinstein — Anton [an-ton;; Russian uhn-tawn] /ˈæn tɒn;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn/ (Show IPA), 1829–94, Russian pianist and composer.
- rumbullion — a drink of rum
- 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.
- scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- sideburned — having sideburns
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- soundboard — sounding board.