10-letter words containing u, n, b, e, l
- bulletined — a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public.
- bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
- burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- bushelling — alteration of clothes
- buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
- buttonless — having no button or buttons.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
- censurable — deserving censure, condemnation, or blame
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- clubbiness — the state of being clubby
- columbines — Plural form of columbine.
- confusable — Able or liable to be confused with something else.
- confutable — (archaic, or, formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
- conjugable — Capable of being conjugated.
- consumable — Consumable goods are items which are intended to be bought, used, and then replaced.
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- coulterneb — The puffin.
- crunchable — That can be crunched.
- cuban heel — a moderately high heel for a shoe or boot
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cuttlebone — the internal calcareous shell of the cuttlefish, used as a mineral supplement to the diet of cage-birds and as a polishing agent
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- doubleness — the quality or condition of being double.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
- eboulement — a collapse; cave-in.
- ebullience — high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.
- ebulliency — Ebullience.
- ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
- enumerable — Able to be counted by one-to-one correspondence with the set of all positive integers.
- enunciable — (of words, linguistic expressions, etc.) Capable of being distinctly enunciated or pronounced in speech.
- euglobulin — a fraction of serum globulin which is soluble in saline solutions and insoluble in distilled water
- expugnable — Capable of being expugned.
- fumé blanc — sauvignon blanc (sense 2)
- funnel-web — any large poisonous black spider of the family Dipluridae, constructing funnel-shaped webs
- gulbenkian — Calouste Sarkis (kæˈluːst ˈsɑːkɪz). 1869–1955, British industrialist, born in Turkey. He endowed the international Gulbenkian Foundation for the advancement of the arts, science, and education
- gum nebula — a large, almost circular, emission nebula in the constellation Vela and Puppis. Thought to be the remains of a supernova explosion 1 million years ago, it is estimated to lie 1300 light years away
- gun barrel — firearm: tube-shaped part
- gun battle — a violent fight between groups of people in which guns are used
- honourable — (British spelling) Alternative form of honorable.
- hucklebone — hipbone.