10-letter words containing b, u, r, i, n
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- melburnian — 2nd Viscount, William Lamb.
- moribundly — In a moribund way.
- muttonbird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- nebulizers — Plural form of nebulizer.
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- nonfibrous — Not fibrous.
- nubiferous — cloud-bringing, cloud-bearing, or full of cloud
- nudibranch — a shell-less, marine snail of the suborder Nudibranchia, having external, often branched respiratory appendages on the back and sides.
- obduration — the process of becoming or the state of being obdurate, intractable and indifferent
- objuration — (rare) A firm binding by oath.
- obturation — to stop up; close.
- oil burner — a furnace, boiler, or other device that burns fuel oil.
- outbargain — to surpass in bargaining
- outbraving — Present participle of outbrave.
- overbuying — Present participle of overbuy.
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- 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.
- purblindly — in a purblind manner
- rebuilding — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- rebukingly — in a severe and disapproving manner
- refuse bin — a bin for the disposal of rubbish and waste
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- sideburned — having sideburns
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- springbuck — springbok.
- subcranial — of the area beneath the cranium or skull
- subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
- subjoinder — something subjoined, as an additional comment.
- 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.
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- 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).
- subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
- subversion — an act or instance of subverting.