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10-letter words containing b, e, o

  • boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
  • bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
  • bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
  • bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
  • bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
  • bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
  • bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
  • bovver boy — a rowdy youth
  • bow rudder — (in canoeing) a technique in which a paddler in the bow holds the paddle at an angle from the side of the bow, using it as a rudder to steer.
  • bow street — a street in London, England: location of a metropolitan police court.
  • bow weight — the poundage required to draw a bow to the full length of the arrow
  • bow-legged — outward curvature of the legs causing a separation of the knees when the ankles are close or in contact.
  • bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
  • bowed down — weighed down; troubled
  • bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
  • bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
  • bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
  • bowser bag — doggy bag.
  • box camera — a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
  • box clever — to behave in a careful and cunning way
  • box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
  • box girder — a girder that is hollow and square or rectangular in shape
  • box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
  • 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 office — The box office in a theatre, cinema, or concert hall is the place where the tickets are sold.
  • box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
  • box supper — a social gathering, as at a church, at which box lunches donated by women are auctioned off to raise funds
  • box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
  • box wrench — a wrench with a completely enclosed head, used to hold and turn nuts and bolts
  • box-office — of or relating to the box office or to the business and commercial aspects of the theater: a box-office window; box-office receipts; a box-office attraction.
  • boy wonder — a young man who is extremely good at a particular activity or who has a particular talent or skill
  • brace root — prop root.
  • brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
  • brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
  • brake shoe — the curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake
  • 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.
  • bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread
  • bread roll — a small piece of bread dough made into a circular shape and baked
  • bread shop — a baker's shop
  • breadboard — A breadboard is a flat piece of wood used for cutting bread on.
  • 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.
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