10-letter words containing un
- bosun bird — tropic bird.
- bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- bound form — a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def 2).
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- bren (gun) — a light, fast, gas-operated machine gun used by the British army in WWII
- brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
- brundisium — Brindisi
- brunetiere — Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahn] /fɛr diˈnɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1849–1906, French literary critic.
- brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- 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.
- bunch pink — sweet william.
- bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- bundesbank — the central bank of Germany
- bundeswehr — the armed forces of Germany.
- 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
- bunglingly — in a bungling manner
- bunionette — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- bunny chow — a dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with curry
- bunny girl — a night-club hostess whose costume includes a rabbit-like tail and ears
- bunny hill — a nursery slope
- bunt order — a dominance hierarchy seen in herds of cattle, established and maintained by bunting.
- burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
- burns unit — a section of a hospital in which those with serious burns are treated
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
- card punch — keypunch (def 1).
- card-punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- caruncular — Of, relating to, or like, a caruncle.
- cassumunar — an aromatic, bitter root similar to ginger
- cat around — to search promiscuously for sexual partners; be promiscuous
- catamounts — Plural form of catamount.
- cattle run — a barnyard or fenced area adjacent to a barn used as a limited grazing area or exercise lot for cattle.
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- chipmunked — Simple past tense and past participle of chipmunk.
- chiungchou — Qiongzhou.
- chow hound — a person who eats food in large quantities or with great gusto; glutton.