10-letter words containing b, u, n, d
- bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- bundeswehr — the armed forces of Germany.
- bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
- bunt order — a dominance hierarchy seen in herds of cattle, established and maintained by bunting.
- burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
- burned-out — consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use: a burned-out tube.
- butt-naked — completely naked
- buttondown — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
- buttonhold — to buttonhole a person
- buttonmold — a small disk of wood, metal, etc., which is covered as with cloth or leather to form a button
- buttonwood — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- cotton bud — A cotton bud is a small stick with a ball of cotton wool at each end, which people use, for example, for applying make-up.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cummerbund — A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- debentures — Plural form of debenture.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- debutantes — Plural form of debutante.
- decumbence — The act or posture of lying down.
- decumbency — Decumbence.
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- deurbanize — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- disabusing — Present participle of disabuse.
- disburdens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disburden.
- disbursing — Present participle of disburse.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- disturbant — having a disturbing effect, disquieting
- disturbing — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- doubleness — the quality or condition of being double.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubtingly — In a doubting manner.
- downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- drug baron — the head of an organization that deals in illegal drugs
- dubitation — doubt.
- duisenberg — Willem Frederik, known as Wim. 1935–2005, Dutch economist; president of the European Central Bank (1998–2003)
- dumb bunny — a stupid person.
- dumbfounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dumbfound.
- dumbsizing — Present participle of dumbsize.
- dune buggy — vehicle used on sand