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10-letter words containing o, u, b, a

  • boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
  • 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.
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
  • bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
  • 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.
  • brian boru — ?941–1014, king of Ireland (1002–14): killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf
  • broad jump — an exercise and athletic contest in which competitors try to jump the farthest distance possible from a standing start from a fixed board or mark
  • broad-jump — long-jump.
  • broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
  • brontosaur — apatosaurus
  • buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
  • buddhahood — the attainment of enlightenment as a Buddha.
  • buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
  • buffo bass — (in Italian opera of the 18th century) a bass singer who performs such a comic part
  • buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
  • bulbaceous — bulbous
  • bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
  • bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
  • bullroarer — a wooden slat attached to a thong that makes a roaring sound when the thong is whirled: used esp by native Australians in religious rites
  • bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
  • bump along — advance unevenly
  • buonaparte — Bonaparte1
  • buonarroti — Michelangelo.
  • burma road — the route extending from Lashio in Burma (now Myanmar) to Chongqing in China, which was used by the Allies during World War II to supply military equipment to Chiang Kai-shek's forces in China
  • button ear — a dog's ear that folds forward completely.
  • button man — soldier (sense 2) soldier (sense 2b)
  • buttonball — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
  • butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
  • buzz about — to scurry about
  • buzz along — a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
  • byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
  • cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
  • calico bug — harlequin bug.
  • cannot but — You use cannot but, could not but, and cannot help but when you want to emphasize that you believe something must be true and that there is no possibility of anything else being the case.
  • canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
  • capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
  • carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
  • cash bonus — an extra amount of money given to someone for doing something good, over and above the amount that is normally paid for that achievement
  • cast about — to make a mental or visual search
  • chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
  • choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
  • choriambus — choriamb.
  • cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
  • coagulable — that can be coagulated
  • cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
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