10-letter words containing o, u, b
- back focus — the distance between the back surface of a lens and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
- back quote — (character) "`" ASCII code 96. Common names: left quote; left single quote; open quote; ITU-T: grave accent; grave. Rare: backprime; INTERCAL: backspark; unapostrophe; birk; blugle; back tick; back glitch; push; ITU-T: opening single quotation mark; quasiquote. Back quote is used in Unix shells to invoke command substitution.
- backcourts — Plural form of backcourt.
- background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
- baculiform — shaped like a rod
- badmouthed — Simple past tense and past participle of badmouth.
- bakehouses — Plural form of bakehouse.
- barbarious — (dated, before 20th century, now literary) barbarous, barbaric.
- bardacious — bodacious.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- barosaurus — Any of the genus Barosaurus of long-tailed, long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs.
- barotrauma — an injury caused by changes in atmospheric pressure, esp to the eardrums or lungs
- barracouta — a large predatory Pacific fish, Thyrsites atun, with a protruding lower jaw and strong teeth: family Gempylidae
- barratrous — (legal) Tainted with, or constituting, barratry.
- basutoland — Lesotho
- bat around — to discuss (an idea, proposition, etc) informally
- bathhouses — Plural form of bathhouse.
- battailous — ready for battle; pugnacious
- baudouin i — 1930–93, king of Belgium (1951–93)
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- be used to — If you are used to something, you are familiar with it because you have done it or experienced it many times before.
- be-thought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- beat about — to hunt or look through or around
- beat up on — If someone beats up on a person or beats on them, they hit or kick the person many times.
- beau monde — the world of fashion and society
- beaujolais — Beaujolais is a type of red wine that comes from the region of eastern France called Beaujolais.
- because of — If an event or situation occurs because of something, that thing is the reason or cause.
- beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
- become due — to become payable as previously arranged
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- belorussia — historical region in central Europe corresponding to present-day Belarus
- beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- ben-gurion — David, original name David Gruen. 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)
- benzofuran — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C8H6O
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- bertolucci — Bernardo (berˈnardo). born 1940, Italian film director: his films include The Spider's Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970), 1900 (1976), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and The Dreamers (2003)
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- betula oil — methyl salicylate.
- bi-curious — considering experimenting with bisexuality
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bifluoride — an acid salt of hydrofluoric acid containing the group HF 2 -, as ammonium bifluoride, NH 4 HF 2.
- bigmouthed — having a very large mouth.
- bijouterie — jewellery esteemed for the delicacy of the work rather than the value of the materials
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- biobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- biofouling — the degradation of an artificial surface by biological growth
- biofuelled — running on biofuel
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds