10-letter words containing n, o, b, t
- carbonates — a salt or ester of carbonic acid.
- carbonette — a ball of compressed coal dust used as fuel
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
- coenobitic — cenobite.
- cohabitant — a person living together with another or others
- cohabiting — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohibition — restraint
- cohobating — Present participle of cohobate.
- cohobation — (dated, chemistry) The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.
- combatants — a nation engaged in active fighting with enemy forces.
- combatting — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- combusting — Present participle of combust.
- combustion — Combustion is the act of burning something or the process of burning.
- confutable — (archaic, or, formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
- conglobate — to form into a globe or ball
- constables — Plural form of constable.
- consubsist — to subsist together
- contraband — Contraband refers to goods that are taken into or out of a country illegally.
- contrabass — a member of any of various families of musical instruments that is lower in pitch than the bass
- contribute — If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
- corybantic — frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
- 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.
- coulterneb — The puffin.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- counterbug — (humour) A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
- cribration — the action of sifting, esp (in pharmacy) to separate finer particles of a drug from coarser particles
- croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- curbstones — Plural form of curbstone.
- cuttlebone — the internal calcareous shell of the cuttlefish, used as a mineral supplement to the diet of cage-birds and as a polishing agent
- cytoglobin — (protein) A globin that is produced by all types of human and other mammalian cells.
- dealbation — the process of bleaching or making white
- delibation — a small taste of a liquid
- diplobiont — an organism that has both haploid and diploid individuals in its life cycle
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubtingly — In a doubting manner.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- dubitation — doubt.
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- duty-bound — If you say you are duty-bound to do something, you are emphasizing that you feel it is your duty to do it.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- ebionitism — The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
- eboulement — a collapse; cave-in.
- ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- embodiment — A tangible or visible form of an idea, quality, or feeling.
- embonpoint — The plump or fleshy part of a person’s body, in particular a woman’s bosom.