10-letter words containing o, n
- borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.
- borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
- bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
- boring bar — Metalworking. a bar holding a tool for boring a cylinder or the like.
- boringness — the quality of being boring
- born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
- borrowings — a company's liabilities or indebtedness
- boskop man — the undated cranial remains of a possible Homo sapiens found in the Transvaal of South Africa.
- bossa nova — a dance similar to the samba, originating in Brazil
- boston bag — a two-handled bag for carrying books, papers, etc.
- boston ivy — a climbing vine (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) of the grape family, native to Japan and China, having shield-shaped leaves and purple berries: often grown to cover walls
- bostonians — of, relating to, or typical of Boston, Mass., or its residents: a Bostonian childhood; Bostonian reserve.
- bosun bird — tropic bird.
- botany bay — an inlet of the Tasman Sea, on the SE coast of Australia: surrounded by the suburbs of Sydney
- bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
- bottlenose — a kind of whale or dolphin
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- bottomness — the number of bottom antiquarks minus the number of bottom quarks in a particle
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- bound form — a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def 2).
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- bourbonism — support for the rule of the Bourbons, the European royal line that ruled in France, Spain, and Naples and Sicily at various times in the late 16th to early 20th centuries
- bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- bow window — a bay window in the shape of a curve
- bowed down — weighed down; troubled
- bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- box canyon — a canyon with vertical or almost vertical walls
- box column — a hollow wooden column, as for a porch, usually having a rectangular cross section.
- box number — A box number is a number used as an address, for example one given by a newspaper for replies to a private advertisement, or one used by an organization for the letters sent to it.
- box spring — A box spring is a frame containing rows of coiled springs that is used to provide support for a mattress. You can also use box springs to refer to the springs themselves.
- box wrench — a wrench with a completely enclosed head, used to hold and turn nuts and bolts
- boxing day — Boxing Day is the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day.
- boy wonder — a young man who is extremely good at a particular activity or who has a particular talent or skill
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.