10-letter words containing b, a, t, h, r
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.
- mukhabarat — (in Middle Eastern countries) a secret police force
- outbreathe — to breathe out
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- patchboard — a device with a large number of sockets into which electrical plugs can be inserted to form many different temporary circuits: used in telephone exchanges, computer systems, etc
- rabbitfish — a puffer, Lagocephalus laevigatus.
- 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
- right bank — a part of Paris, France, on the N bank of the Seine.
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- roman bath — public spa
- rubythroat — a ruby-throated hummingbird
- run a bath — to turn on the taps to fill a bath with water for bathing oneself
- sabretache — a leather case suspended from a cavalryman's saddle
- shortboard — a type of surfboard that is shorter than standard
- shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
- showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- tetherball — a game for two persons, in which each player, standing on each side of a post from the top of which a ball is suspended by a cord, hits the ball with the hand or a paddle in a direction opposite to that in which the other player hits it, the object being to coil the cord completely around the post.
- tetrabrach — a metrical foot or word of four short syllables.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- the boards — the acting profession; the stage
- the breaks — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
- the rabbis — the early Jewish scholars whose teachings are recorded in the Talmud
- the rabble — the common people
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- third base — the third in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate.
- threadbare — having the nap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of the warp and woof, as a fabric, garment, etc.
- throw back — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
- timberhead — the top end of a timber, rising above the deck and serving for belaying ropes.
- tithe barn — a large barn where, formerly, the agricultural tithe of a parish was stored
- triphibian — skilled in combat equally on land, sea, and in the air.
- turboshaft — a gas turbine used to deliver shaft power, as to a helicopter rotor.
- turnbroach — (formerly) a servant whose job was to turn the spit on which meat, poultry, etc, was roasting
- unbirthday — any day other than one's birthday
- unbreathed — not breathed: unbreathed air.
- urban myth — a modern story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms and often has elements of humor, moralizing, or horror: Are there alligators living in the New York City sewer system, or is that just an urban legend?
- water bath — a system for the control of temperature in which a vessel containing the material to be heated is set into or over one containing water and receiving the heat directly.
- water-bath — a system for the control of temperature in which a vessel containing the material to be heated is set into or over one containing water and receiving the heat directly.
- wheat beer — any of various beers brewed using a mixture of wheat malt and barley malt
- whereabout — whereabouts.
- whirlabout — a whirling around in a circle.
- whirlblast — a blast of wind
- white bear — polar bear.
- white crab — ghost crab.