10-letter words containing n, b, o
- bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- box canyon — a canyon with vertical or almost vertical walls
- box column — a hollow wooden column, as for a porch, usually having a rectangular cross section.
- box number — A box number is a number used as an address, for example one given by a newspaper for replies to a private advertisement, or one used by an organization for the letters sent to it.
- box spring — A box spring is a frame containing rows of coiled springs that is used to provide support for a mattress. You can also use box springs to refer to the springs themselves.
- box wrench — a wrench with a completely enclosed head, used to hold and turn nuts and bolts
- boxing day — Boxing Day is the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day.
- boy wonder — a young man who is extremely good at a particular activity or who has a particular talent or skill
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- 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.
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breastbone — Your breastbone is the long, flat bone which goes from your throat to the bottom of your ribs and to which your ribs are attached.
- brian boru — ?941–1014, king of Ireland (1002–14): killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- bring down — When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.
- bring home — introduce to parents
- bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
- brno chair — an armchair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless steel composed of two interlocking parts, one forming the legs and arms and the other the seat and back frame, with the back and seat lightly upholstered and usually covered with leather.
- broad bean — Broad beans are flat round beans that are light green in colour and are eaten as a vegetable.
- broadlands — a Palladian mansion near Romsey in Hampshire: formerly the home of Lord Palmerston and Lord Mountbatten
- broccolini — a cultivated variety of cabbage, Brassica B. oleracea, which resembles broccoli and is eaten as a green vegetable
- broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- brokenness — the quality of being broken
- bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
- bronchitic — acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining of the bronchial tubes, caused by respiratory infection or exposure to bronchial irritants, as cigarette smoke.
- bronchitis — Bronchitis is an illness like a very bad cough, in which your bronchial tubes become sore and infected.
- brontobyte — 1027 or 290 bytes
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- bronze age — The Bronze Age was a period of time which began when people started making things from bronze about 4,000–6,000 years ago.
- broodiness — moody; gloomy.
- broodingly — preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- brought on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- browbeaten — intimidated
- brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
- brown bear — a large ferocious brownish bear, Ursus arctos, inhabiting temperate forests of North America, Europe, and Asia
- brown belt — a level of expertise just below that of black belt
- brown bent — a common grass, Agrostis canina, of North America, used for lawns and putting greens because its blades can be clipped very short without injury to the plant.