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10-letter words containing u, n, t, a, b

  • blanquette — a French stew made of meat, usually veal, and white sauce
  • blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
  • blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
  • bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
  • branch cut — a method for selecting a single-valued function on a subset of the domain of a multiple-valued function of a complex variable.
  • 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.
  • brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
  • brontosaur — apatosaurus
  • buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
  • buonaparte — Bonaparte1
  • buonarroti — Michelangelo.
  • bustamante — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1780–1853, Mexican military and political leader: president 1830–32, 1837–41.
  • butane gas — a colourless flammable gaseous alkane that exists in two isomeric forms, both of which occur in natural gas. The stable isomer, n-butane, is used mainly in the manufacture of rubber and fuels (such as Calor Gas). Formula: C4H10
  • butt-naked — completely naked
  • 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
  • cabanatuan — city in SC Luzon, in the Philippines: pop. 173,000
  • 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.
  • canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
  • canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
  • confutable — (archaic, or, formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
  • debutantes — Plural form of debutante.
  • disturbant — having a disturbing effect, disquieting
  • dubitation — doubt.
  • dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
  • 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.
  • extubating — Present participle of extubate.
  • extubation — (medicine) The removal of a tube inserted by intubation.
  • extuberant — Swelling out; protuberant.
  • exurbanite — A person who lives in an exurb.
  • fabulation — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
  • gangbuster — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • gatlinburg — a town in E Tennessee: resort.
  • groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
  • gubernator — a governor
  • gun battle — a violent fight between groups of people in which guns are used
  • habitaunce — a place where a person or an animal lives or resides
  • hang about — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
  • ibn-batuta — 1304–?68, Arab traveller, who wrote the Rihlah, an account of his travels (1325–54) in Africa and Asia
  • incubating — Present participle of incubate.
  • incubation — the act or process of incubating.
  • incubative — Of or pertaining to incubation.
  • incubators — Plural form of incubator.
  • incubatory — the act or process of incubating.
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