10-letter words containing b, a, r, i, o
- obduration — the process of becoming or the state of being obdurate, intractable and indifferent
- oberration — (obsolete) A wandering about.
- obituaries — Plural form of obituary.
- obituarist — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- objuration — (rare) A firm binding by oath.
- obligators — Plural form of obligator.
- obligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- obliterans — Producing obstruction due to inflammation and fibrosis.
- obliterate — to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
- obrogation — the annulment or alteration of a law by the enactment of a new one.
- obturation — to stop up; close.
- olive drab — a deep olive color.
- onboarding — (business) The process of bringing a new employee on board, incorporating training and orientation.
- orbiculate — orbicular; rounded.
- ordainable — able to be ordained
- outbargain — to surpass in bargaining
- outbraving — Present participle of outbrave.
- paedotribe — (in ancient Greece) a gymnastics teacher
- parabiosis — experimental or natural union of two individuals with exchange of blood.
- parabiotic — experimental or natural union of two individuals with exchange of blood.
- parabolize — to form as a parabola or paraboloid.
- paraboloid — a surface that can be put into a position such that its sections parallel to at least one coordinate plane are parabolas.
- paramaribo — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- pillar box — a pillarlike box in which letters are deposited for collection by mail carriers; mailbox.
- port blair — a seaport in and the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, on S Andaman.
- portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
- presbyopia — farsightedness due to ciliary muscle weakness and loss of elasticity in the crystalline lens.
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- proverbial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- pyrophobia — an abnormal fear of fire.
- rabbit job — (Cambridge) A batch job that does little, if any, real work, but creates one or more copies of itself, breeding like rabbits. Compare wabbit, fork bomb.
- rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
- radio beam — beam (def 12).
- radio tube — a vacuum tube used in a radio receiving set.
- radiolabel — label (def 12).
- raised bog — a bog of convex shape produced by growth of sphagnum and other bog plants in acid conditions and the subsequent build up of acid peat
- rhabdolith — a minute rodlike structure, believed by some to be algae, found at the bottom and the surface of the ocean, and which is composed of calcium carbonate, calcium or limestone
- rhomboidal — shaped almost like a diamond or rhomboid
- riboflavin — a vitamin B complex factor appearing as an orange-yellow, crystalline compound, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 4 O 6 , derived from ribose, essential for growth, found in milk, fresh meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, etc., or made synthetically, and used in enriching flour, in vitamin preparations, and in treating facial lesions.
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- rio balsas — Río, Río Balsas.
- rio branco — a state in W Brazil. 58,900 sq. mi. (152,550 sq. km). Capital: Rio Branco.
- rise above — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- roborating — strengthening or invigorating
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- sailboater — a person who sails a boat