10-letter words containing b, u, o
- bismuthous — of or containing bismuth in the trivalent state
- bitou bush — type of sprawling woody shrub
- bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
- bivouacked — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- blanquillo — any of several game fishes of the genus Caulolatilus, related to the tilefishes.
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- blood feud — A blood feud is a long-lasting, bitter disagreement between two or more groups of people, particularly family groups. Blood feuds often involve members of each group murdering or fighting with members of the other.
- 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.
- bloodguilt — guilt of murder or shedding blood
- bloodhound — A bloodhound is a large dog with a very good sense of smell. Bloodhounds are often used to find people or other animals by following their scent.
- 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
- blowing up — a reprimand
- bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- blue blood — If you say that someone has blue blood, you mean that they are from a family that has a high social rank.
- blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
- 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 heron — any of the American varieties of heron with bluish or bluish-gray plumage, as the great blue heron.
- 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.
- blue mould — any fungus of the genus Penicillium that forms a bluish mass on decaying food, leather, etc
- blue phlox — a plant, Phlox divaricata, of eastern North America, having creeping, rooting stems and mauve flowers.
- blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
- blue poppy — a papaveraceous plant, Meconopsis betonicifolia, grown for its showy sky-blue flowers
- bluebonnet — a broad, flat cap of blue woolen cloth, formerly worn in Scotland
- bluebottle — A bluebottle is a large fly with a shiny dark-blue body.
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
- bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
- blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
- boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- body count — the number of people killed
- body fluid — any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- body odour — Body odour is an unpleasant smell caused by sweat on a person's body.
- body punch — a blow to the body of an opponent
- 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
- bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
- bogon flux — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See quantum bogodynamics.
- böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
- 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.
- bombed out — destroyed or severely damaged by or as by bombing: a bombed-out village; a bombed-out economy.