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

  • springbuck — springbok.
  • stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
  • stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
  • sub-branch — a further branch or division of something within an already established branch or division
  • sub-number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • sub-reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
  • subangular — fairly angular
  • 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.
  • subcranial — of the area beneath the cranium or skull
  • 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.
  • subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
  • subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
  • subjoinder — something subjoined, as an additional comment.
  • submanager — a secondary or assistant manager
  • submariner — a member of the crew of a submarine.
  • submarines — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
  • submersion — to submerge.
  • subnatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
  • subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
  • subnuclear — pertaining to particles within or smaller than an atomic nucleus.
  • subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
  • subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
  • 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.
  • subversion — an act or instance of subverting.
  • super band — the band of frequencies between 216 and 600 megahertz, used for cable television channels and Citizens Band.
  • superbeing — the fact of existing; existence (as opposed to nonexistence).
  • superbrain — (computer)   A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
  • 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.
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