10-letter words containing e, b, o
- bertolucci — Bernardo (berˈnardo). born 1940, Italian film director: his films include The Spider's Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970), 1900 (1976), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and The Dreamers (2003)
- besottedly — in a besotted manner
- bestowment — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- beta stock — any of the second rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange, of which there are about 500. Continuous display of prices by market makers is required but not immediate publication of transactions
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- bete noire — If you refer to someone or something as your bete noire, you mean that you have a particular dislike for them or that they annoy you a great deal.
- betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- bettendorf — a city in E Iowa.
- better off — in more favourable circumstances, esp financially
- better-off — being in better circumstances, especially economically: Only the better-off nations can afford to send probes into space.
- bettermost — best
- betula oil — methyl salicylate.
- bible oath — an oath sworn with one's hand on the Christian Bible
- bibliopegy — the art of binding books
- bibliopole — a dealer in books, esp rare or decorative ones
- biblioteca — a library.
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bichromate — dichromate
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bidonville — a shanty town
- bifluoride — an acid salt of hydrofluoric acid containing the group HF 2 -, as ammonium bifluoride, NH 4 HF 2.
- big-footed — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- bigmouthed — having a very large mouth.
- bijouterie — jewellery esteemed for the delicacy of the work rather than the value of the materials
- billfolder — billfold.
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- bimble box — type of dense Australian tree
- binoxalate — an acid containing the group HC 2 O 4 –, as ammonium binoxalate, C 2 H 5 NO 4 ⋅H 2 O.
- bio-diesel — Bio-diesel is diesel fuel made from biological or natural sources.
- biocellate — (of animals and plants) marked with two eyelike spots or ocelli
- biocenosis — a community of biologically integrated and interdependent plants and animals
- biocentric — centered in life; having life as its principal fact.
- biochemist — A biochemist is a scientist or student who studies biochemistry.
- biodegrade — to decompose (something)
- biodiverse — containing a wide variety of plant and animal species
- bioecology — the science that deals with the interrelations of communities of animals and plants with their environment
- bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
- biofuelled — running on biofuel
- biogenesis — the principle that a living organism must originate from a parent organism similar to itself
- biogenetic — genetic engineering.
- biographee — a person whose biography has been written
- biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- biometrics — that branch of biology which deals with its data statistically and by mathematical analysis
- biomimetic — (of a human-made product) imitating nature or a natural process
- biopoiesis — the development of living matter from nonliving matter, esp considered as an evolutionary process
- biopolymer — a large molecule in a living organism
- bioprocess — a method or operation of preparing a biological material, especially a product of genetic engineering, for commercial use.
- bioreactor — a machine for growing organisms
- bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme