10-letter words containing o, n
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- 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.
- brian boru — ?941–1014, king of Ireland (1002–14): killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- bring down — When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.
- bring home — introduce to parents
- bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
- brno chair — an armchair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless steel composed of two interlocking parts, one forming the legs and arms and the other the seat and back frame, with the back and seat lightly upholstered and usually covered with leather.
- broad bean — Broad beans are flat round beans that are light green in colour and are eaten as a vegetable.
- broadlands — a Palladian mansion near Romsey in Hampshire: formerly the home of Lord Palmerston and Lord Mountbatten
- broccolini — a cultivated variety of cabbage, Brassica B. oleracea, which resembles broccoli and is eaten as a green 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
- bronchitic — acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining of the bronchial tubes, caused by respiratory infection or exposure to bronchial irritants, as cigarette smoke.
- bronchitis — Bronchitis is an illness like a very bad cough, in which your bronchial tubes become sore and infected.
- brontobyte — 1027 or 290 bytes
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- 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.
- broodingly — preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- brought on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- browbeaten — intimidated
- brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
- 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 coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
- brown coat — arriccio.
- brown deer — a town in SE Wisconsin.
- brown eyes — eyes with brown irises
- brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
- 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 spot — a disease of many plants, characterized by irregular, brownish lesions on the fruit and foliage and by stem cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Ceratophorum setosum or Cephalosporium apii.
- 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
- brownprint — a process of photographic reproduction using a mixture of iron and silver salts to produce a white image on a sepia ground.
- brownshirt — Nazi stormtrooper
- 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
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.