10-letter words containing b, a, r, o, u
- procurable — obtainable.
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
- radio tube — a vacuum tube used in a radio receiving set.
- ramboesque — looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
- razor burn — soreness on the face caused by shaving
- recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- roustabout — a wharf laborer or deck hand, as on the Mississippi River.
- royal blue — a deep blue, often with a faint reddish tinge.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- rubythroat — a ruby-throated hummingbird
- salubrious — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- scrubboard — washboard (defs 1, 2).
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.
- soundboard — sounding board.
- strasbourg — a department in NE France. 1848 sq. mi. (4785 sq. km). Capital: Strasbourg.
- sub-reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subjugator — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- suborbital — (of a spacecraft) not in orbit; not achieving an altitude and velocity resulting in a ballistic trajectory circling the earth at least once.
- subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
- subprogram — procedure (def 4b).
- subtractor — in electronics, a circuit of which the output depends upon the difference between two inputs
- sugar bowl — a small bowl, usually having a cover, for serving granulated sugar or sugar cubes.
- superboard — a wooden board with exceptional properties of some kind
- tabulatory — relating to tabulation
- tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- troubadour — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
- turboshaft — a gas turbine used to deliver shaft power, as to a helicopter rotor.
- turbotrain — a train powered by a gas-turbine locomotive.
- turbulator — a device that is designed to make air flow more smoothly over the wing of an aircraft and minimize turbulence
- turnbroach — (formerly) a servant whose job was to turn the spit on which meat, poultry, etc, was roasting
- ulan bator — a republic in E central Asia, in N Mongolia. About 600,000 sq. mi. (1,500,000 sq. km). Capital: Ulan Bator.
- umbrageous — creating or providing shade; shady: an umbrageous tree.
- unabsorbed — not absorbed or taken in
- unbroached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- unfordable — (of a river, flood, stream, etc) not able to be forded
- unilobular — having or consisting of one lobule
- unlaboured — (of writing or artwork) not showing effort, but natural and flowing in style
- unprobated — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
- unprovable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.