10-letter words containing o, n, e, b
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breastbone — Your breastbone is the long, flat bone which goes from your throat to the bottom of your ribs and to which your ribs are attached.
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- bring home — introduce to parents
- bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
- broad bean — Broad beans are flat round beans that are light green in colour and are eaten as a vegetable.
- broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- brokenness — the quality of being broken
- bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
- brontobyte — 1027 or 290 bytes
- bronze age — The Bronze Age was a period of time which began when people started making things from bronze about 4,000–6,000 years ago.
- broodiness — moody; gloomy.
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- browbeaten — intimidated
- brown bear — a large ferocious brownish bear, Ursus arctos, inhabiting temperate forests of North America, Europe, and Asia
- brown belt — a level of expertise just below that of black belt
- brown bent — a common grass, Agrostis canina, of North America, used for lawns and putting greens because its blades can be clipped very short without injury to the plant.
- brown deer — a town in SE Wisconsin.
- brown eyes — eyes with brown irises
- brown nose — a form of light sensitization in cattle
- brown rice — unpolished rice, in which the grains retain the outer yellowish-brown layer (bran)
- brown-nose — to curry favor; behave obsequiously.
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- brownnoser — a person who brownnoses
- brownstone — In the United States, a brownstone is a type of house which was built during the 19th century. Brownstones have a front that is made from a reddish-brown stone.
- bubonocele — an incomplete hernia in the groin; partial inguinal hernia
- buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
- bufotenine — a tryptamine alkaloid with hallucinogenic properties, found in the skin of some species of toad and in some mushrooms and tropical shrubs
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bull-nosed — having a rounded end
- bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling
- bunionette — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- bunt order — a dominance hierarchy seen in herds of cattle, established and maintained by bunting.
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
- burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing
- burned-out — consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use: a burned-out tube.
- button ear — a dog's ear that folds forward completely.
- buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
- buttonless — having no button or buttons.
- by oneself — be oneself, to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition. to be unaffected and sincere: One makes more friends by being oneself than by putting on airs.
- cacao bean — a seed of the cacao tree.
- cancelbots — Plural form of cancelbot.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- carabinero — a Chilean police officer