10-letter words containing n, o, b, t
- panic bolt — a bar that spans an emergency exit door on its interior and opens the latch when pressure is applied.
- phycobiont — the algae component of a lichen.
- pinto bean — a variety of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, having mottled or spotted seeds: grown chiefly in the southern U.S.
- planoblast — the medusa of a hydroid.
- portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- pushbutton — A pushbutton machine or process is controlled by means of buttons or switches.
- rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
- rent-a-mob — a group of people who are considered to always be protesting in a seemingly irrational manner, as if simply hired from a rental service for the purpose of protesting
- ribbentrop — Joachim von [yoh-ah-khim fuh n] /ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm fən/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, German leader in the Nazi party: minister of foreign affairs 1938–45; executed for war crimes.
- roborating — strengthening or invigorating
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- roman bath — public spa
- roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- san benito — a city in S Texas.
- sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
- shikibuton — futon.
- snow-broth — melted snow.
- snowtubing — the sport of moving across snow on a large inflated inner tube
- soft-bound — (of a book) having a thin cardboard, paper, or plastic cover
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- southbound — traveling southward.
- stab wound — knife injury
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- stink bomb — a small glass globe, used by practical jokers: it releases a liquid with an offensive smell when broken
- stone bass — wreckfish.
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- stoneborer — an animal that can bore through rocks, esp certain types of bivalve molluscs that bore into limestone
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- strip bond — a bond that has been stripped into its principal certificate and interest coupons, each part to be sold separately.
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- strobotron — a glow lamp, used in stroboscopes, that gives very bright flashes of light in response to voltage pulses.
- strongbark — any of the several tropical American shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Bourreria, of the borage family, especially B. ovata, of southern Florida and the West Indies, having elliptic leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
- stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- subcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- subduction — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
- subjection — the act of subjecting.
- submontane — under or beneath a mountain or mountains.
- subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- 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).
- subsection — a part or division of a section.
- substation — a branch of a main post office.
- subvention — a grant of money, as by a government or some other authority, in aid or support of some institution or undertaking, especially in connection with science or the arts.
- table corn — Chiefly Eastern U.S. sweet corn.