10-letter words containing o, u, b, i
- 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.
- buonarroti — Michelangelo.
- buononcini — Bononcini.
- burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- burst into — If you burst into tears, laughter, or song, you suddenly begin to cry, laugh, or sing.
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- butt joint — a joint between two plates, planks, bars, sections, etc, when the components are butted together and do not overlap or interlock. The joint may be strapped with jointing plates laid across it or welded (butt weld)
- butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
- calico bug — harlequin bug.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- cherubicon — the hymn sung during the Great Entrance by the choir, which represents the cherubim.
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- co-publish — to publish (something) with another person or company
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- columbines — Plural form of columbine.
- combusting — Present participle of combust.
- combustion — Combustion is the act of burning something or the process of burning.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- concubines — Plural form of concubine.
- consubsist — to subsist together
- contribute — If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
- coquimbite — hydrated ferric sulphate found in certain rocks and in volcanic fumaroles
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- courbevoie — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 85 716 (2006)
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- demob suit — a suit of civilian clothes issued to a demobilized soldier, esp at the end of World War II
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- discobolus — A discus thrower.
- disembogue — to discharge contents by pouring forth.
- dissoluble — capable of being dissolved: tablets dissoluble in water.
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
- doubtingly — In a doubting manner.
- dough bird — the Eskimo curlew.
- dubitation — doubt.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- embothrium — any evergreen shrub of the genus Embothrium, esp E. coccineum, native to South America but widely cultivated as an ornamental for its scarlet flowers: family Proteaceae
- estributor — a person or organization that helps an author publish and distribute his or her own work in electronic form
- euglobulin — a fraction of serum globulin which is soluble in saline solutions and insoluble in distilled water
- euphorbias — Plural form of euphorbia.