10-letter words containing b, u
- moucharaby — a projecting second-storey window or balcony enclosed with latticework
- mouldboard — A curved blade on a plough that serves to turn over the furrow.
- mount bona — a mountain in S Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5005 m (16 420 ft)
- mount nebo — a mountain in Jordan, northeast of the Dead Sea: the highest point of a ridge known as Pisgah, from which Moses viewed the Promised Land just before his death (Deuteronomy 34:1). Height: 802 m (2631 ft)
- mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
- mouse belt — rat belt
- move about — fidget, be restless
- mozambique — Formerly Portuguese East Africa. a republic in SE Africa: formerly an overseas province of Portugal; gained independence in 1975. 297,731 sq. mi. (771,123 sq. km). Capital: Maputo.
- muck about — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- mud dauber — any of several wasps of the family Sphecidae that build a nest of mud cells and provision it with spiders or insects.
- muesli bar — a snack made of compressed muesli ingredients
- muhlenberg — Frederick Augustus Conrad, 1750–1801, U.S. clergyman and statesman: first Speaker of the House 1789–91, 1793–95.
- mukhabarat — (in Middle Eastern countries) a secret police force
- mulberries — Plural form of mulberry.
- muliebrity — womanly nature or qualities.
- mulligrubs — ill temper; colic; grumpiness.
- multilobar — of or relating to a lobe, as of the lungs.
- multilobed — having many lobes
- multiqubit — (physics) Involving multiple qubits.
- mumblement — the act of mumbling
- mumbly-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- muni bonds — Muni bonds are bonds issued by local municipal governments on which the interest is often tax-free.
- murderball — A team sport resembling dodgeball in which players are eliminated (\"murdered\") by being struck with the ball.
- murphy bed — a bed constructed so that it can be folded or swung into a closet.
- musophobia — Fear of mice.
- mussel bed — an area on the sea bed where mussels are bred
- mutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- 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
- nalbuphine — a potent synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 7 NO 4 , used as an analgesic for moderate to severe pain.
- nebulizers — Plural form of nebulizer.
- nebulizing — Present participle of nebulize.
- nebulosity — nebulous or nebular matter.
- nebulously — hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- neuroblast — an immature nerve cell.
- new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
- new quebec — a region of E Canada, formerly the Ungava district of Northwest Territories (1895–1912), extending from the line of the Eastmain and Hamilton Rivers north between Hudson Bay and Labrador; absorbed by Quebec in 1912; contains extensive iron deposits. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
- nightclubs — Plural form of nightclub.
- nondurable — not resistant to wear, decay, etc.; not sturdy: nondurable fabrics.
- nonfibrous — Not fibrous.
- nonobvious — Not obvious.
- nonsoluble — capable of being dissolved or liquefied: a soluble powder.
- nonsubject — (in education) a subject of study not considered to be academically rigorous
- northbound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- nose about — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- nouadhibou — a seaport in SW Mauritania.
- nubiferous — cloud-bringing, cloud-bearing, or full of cloud
- nubigenous — produced from clouds; cloud-born
- nucleobase — (biochemistry) The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.