10-letter words containing u, n, b, r, o
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- 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.
- confabular — of or relating to confabulation
- contribute — If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
- 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.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- counterbug — (humour) A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
- croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- curbstones — Plural form of curbstone.
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- 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.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- drug baron — the head of an organization that deals in illegal drugs
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- frostbound — (of ground) hardened by frost
- gobi burin — a wedge-shaped engraving tool made by Pleistocene hunters on both the Asian and American sides of the Bering Strait.
- gothenburg — Göteborg.
- ground bug — any member of a family (Lygaeidae) of hemipterous plant-eating insects, having generally dark bodies, sometimes marked with red, and lighter, yellowish wings
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- groundball — Alternative form of ground ball.
- gubernator — a governor
- harbouring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard-bound — hardcover
- haubergeon — a short, sleeveless coat of mail.
- honourable — (British spelling) Alternative form of honorable.
- honourably — (British) In a honourable manner.
- hot number — sth popular
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- in trouble — facing punishment
- incubators — Plural form of incubator.
- incubatory — the act or process of incubating.
- jumbotrons — Plural form of jumbotron.
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- lounge bar — more elegant bar
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- membranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
- moribundly — In a moribund way.
- mossbunker — the menhaden.
- muttonbird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- neuroblast — an immature nerve cell.
- new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
- nondurable — not resistant to wear, decay, etc.; not sturdy: nondurable fabrics.