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10-letter words containing t, o, a, n

  • blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
  • bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
  • bloviation — a lengthy but insubstantial speech
  • boat train — A boat train is a train that takes you to or from a port.
  • boca raton — city in SE Fla., near Fort Lauderdale: pop. 75,000
  • bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
  • bon vivant — a person who enjoys luxuries, esp good food and drink
  • bone earth — bone ash.
  • bonnethead — a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, found in shallow waters from Brazil to Massachusetts, having a spade-shaped head.
  • bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
  • boston bag — a two-handled bag for carrying books, papers, etc.
  • bostonians — of, relating to, or typical of Boston, Mass., or its residents: a Bostonian childhood; Bostonian reserve.
  • botany bay — an inlet of the Tasman Sea, on the SE coast of Australia: surrounded by the suburbs of Sydney
  • bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
  • bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
  • brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
  • branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • brontosaur — apatosaurus
  • browbeaten — intimidated
  • brown coat — arriccio.
  • buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
  • buonaparte — Bonaparte1
  • buonarroti — Michelangelo.
  • 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
  • cacotopian — relating to cacotopia
  • caen stone — a cream-colored limestone quarried near Caen, France, for use in building.
  • cajolement — The act of cajoling or the state of being cajoled.
  • calcitonin — a hormone secreted by the thyroid that inhibits the release of calcium from the skeleton and prevents a build-up of calcium in the blood
  • cameration — vaulting
  • camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
  • canal boat — A canal boat is a long, narrow boat used for travelling on canals.
  • cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
  • cancelbots — Plural form of cancelbot.
  • cancerroot — any parasitic plant of the genus Orobanche, especially O. uniflora, of North America, having pale, leafless stalks bearing a single white or purplish flower.
  • candy-coat — sugarcoat (def 2).
  • cankerroot — goldthread.
  • 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.
  • canon city — a town in central Colorado.
  • canonicate — the office or rank of a canon; canonry
  • canonicity — the fact or quality of being canonical
  • canonistic — relating to or belonging to a canonist
  • cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
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