10-letter words containing b, o, s, n, i
- ebionitism — The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
- embosoming — Present participle of embosom.
- epibenthos — the animals and plants living on the sea bottom between the low tide level and a depth of 100 fathoms
- first born — Someone's first born is their first child.
- first-born — first in the order of birth; eldest.
- foxe basin — an ocean passage in Nunavut Territory, Canada, connected with Hudson Bay by the Foxe Channel.
- gombeenism — the practice of usury
- halobionts — Plural form of halobiont.
- heronsbill — any of a genus (Erodium) of plants of the geranium family, with fine leaves and yellow, white, or reddish flowers
- hobgoblins — Plural form of hobgoblin.
- inbornness — The quality or state of being inborn.
- incubators — Plural form of incubator.
- info basic — Variant of Pick BASIC used with PRIME's PRIMOS.
- inhabitors — Plural form of inhabitor.
- inhibitors — Plural form of inhibitor.
- inpossible — Obsolete spelling of impossible.
- inside job — a crime committed by or in collusion with a person or persons closely associated with the victim: The robbery seemed an inside job, because there was no evidence of forced entry.
- insobriety — lack of sobriety or moderation; intemperance; drunkenness.
- insociable — unsociable.
- insociably — in an insociable manner
- insolvable — incapable of being solved or explained; insoluble.
- isabnormal — a line on a map or chart connecting points having an equal deviation from the normal value of some meteorological quantity, as temperature.
- isoborneol — (organic compound) The exo-isomer of borneol.
- jaborandis — Plural form of jaborandi.
- jabotinsky — Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.
- jacobinism — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- knobbiness — the quality or condition of being knobby
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- labionasal — articulated with the lips and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as m.
- libidinous — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- lions book — (publication) "Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6", by John Lions. The two parts of this book contained the entire source listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms. These were circulated internally at the University of New South Wales beginning 1976-77, and were, for years after, the *only* detailed kernel documentation available to anyone outside Bell Labs. Because Western Electric wished to maintain trade secret status on the kernel, the Lions book was never formally published and was only supposed to be distributed to affiliates of source licensees (it is still possible to get a Bell Labs reprint of the book by sending a copy of a V6 source licence to the right person at Bellcore, but *real* insiders have the UNSW edition). In spite of this, it soon spread by samizdat to a good many of the early Unix hackers. In 1996 it was reprinted as a "classic":
- lions club — any of the local clubs that form the International Association of Lions Clubs, formed in the US in 1917 to foster local and international good relations and service to the community
- lobstering — the act, process, or business of capturing lobsters.
- lombrosian — of or relating to the doctrine propounded by the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that criminals are a product of hereditary and atavistic factors and can be classified as a definite abnormal type
- misbuttons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misbutton.
- mobilising — Present participle of mobilise.
- mons pubis — a rounded prominence of fatty tissue over the pubic symphysis, covered with hair after puberty.
- morbidness — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- muni bonds — Muni bonds are bonds issued by local municipal governments on which the interest is often tax-free.
- mycobionts — Plural form of mycobiont.
- nebulosity — nebulous or nebular matter.
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- nicobarese — a member of a people or group of peoples inhabiting the Nicobar Islands.
- nobilities — Plural form of nobility.
- non-biased — having or showing bias or prejudice: They gave us a biased report on immigration trends.
- nonfibrous — Not fibrous.
- nonobvious — Not obvious.
- nosophobia — an abnormal fear of disease.
- nubiferous — cloud-bringing, cloud-bearing, or full of cloud
- nubigenous — produced from clouds; cloud-born