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10-letter words containing o, u, b

  • boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
  • 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
  • brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
  • brontosaur — apatosaurus
  • 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.
  • brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
  • bubble-top — a bulletproof, transparent dome, as over the rear section of an automobile
  • 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
  • bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
  • buddhahood — the attainment of enlightenment as a Buddha.
  • buddhology — the study of Buddha and of Buddhahood.
  • budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
  • 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
  • buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
  • buffoonish — resembling or in the manner of a buffoon
  • buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
  • bufotenine — a tryptamine alkaloid with hallucinogenic properties, found in the skin of some species of toad and in some mushrooms and tropical shrubs
  • bugger off — If someone buggers off, they go away quickly and suddenly. People often say bugger off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
  • build down — a process for reducing armaments, especially the number of nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., by eliminating several older weapons for each new one that is deployed.
  • build into — to make (something) a definite part of (a contract, agreement, etc)
  • build-down — a gradual decrease in nuclear weapons, armed forces, etc., esp. by an agreement in which a smaller number of newer weapons would replace older ones
  • buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
  • bulbaceous — bulbous
  • bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
  • bull block — a machine for drawing wire in which the wire is pulled through the dies by a power-operated drum.
  • bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
  • bull moose — a member of the Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912
  • bull trout — any large trout, esp the salmon trout
  • bull-nosed — having a rounded end
  • bulldogged — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
  • bulldogger — a person who brings an animal, esp a steer, to the ground by twisting its head from the horns
  • bulletwood — the wood of a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, widely used for construction due to its durability and toughness
  • bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
  • bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
  • 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.
  • bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
  • bump along — advance unevenly
  • bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
  • bung it on — to behave in a pretentious manner
  • bunglesome — characterized by bungling
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