10-letter words containing b, e, t, r, o
- robert iii — ?1337–1406, king of Scotland (1390–1406), son of Robert II
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- root borer — any insect or insect larva that bores into the roots of plants
- 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
- sailboater — a person who sails a boat
- sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
- 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.
- skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
- smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
- sob sister — a journalist who writes human-interest stories with sentimental pathos.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- sombrerite — a lime and alumina phosphoric compound
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.
- soubriquet — sobriquet.
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- statesboro — a town in E Georgia.
- stereobate — the foundation or base upon which a building or the like is erected.
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- stoneborer — an animal that can bore through rocks, esp certain types of bivalve molluscs that bore into limestone
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- storm belt — an area of the earth's surface in which storms are frequent
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
- sub-sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- sword belt — a military belt from which a sword may be hung.
- table corn — Chiefly Eastern U.S. sweet corn.
- tailorable — capable of being made into clothing: tailorable fabrics.
- 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.
- tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- terrebonne — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- the boards — the acting profession; the stage
- the bowery — a street in New York City noted for its cheap hotels and bars, frequented by vagrants and drunks
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- thrombogen — prothrombin.
- thrombosed — affected with a thrombus or blood clot
- thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
- tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
- tidal bore — an abrupt rise of tidal water moving rapidly inland from the mouth of an estuary.
- timberwork — structural work formed of timbers.
- to be sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.