10-letter words containing b, i, o, r, e
- 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.
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- box girder — a girder that is hollow and square or rectangular in shape
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- bridegroom — A bridegroom is a man who is getting married.
- bridgeport — a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- bridgework — a partial denture attached to the surrounding teeth
- brier rose — any of various thorny shrubs or other plants, such as the sweetbrier and greenbrier
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- bring home — introduce to parents
- bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
- brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
- broodiness — moody; gloomy.
- brookfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- broomfield — a city in N central Colorado.
- brown rice — unpolished rice, in which the grains retain the outer yellowish-brown layer (bran)
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing
- cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
- carabinero — a Chilean police officer
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- carbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbolize.
- carbonised — Alternative spelling of carbonized.
- carbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbonize.
- carbonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carbonize.
- carborexic — a person who is regarded as being obsessed with reducing their carbon footprint
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- chairborne — having an administrative or desk job rather than a more active one
- cherubicon — the hymn sung during the Great Entrance by the choir, which represents the cherubim.
- chiffarobe — Alternative form of chifforobe.
- chifferobe — a piece of furniture having both drawers and space for hanging clothes.
- chifforobe — an article of furniture that comprises a chest of drawers and a wardrobe
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- clobbering — Present participle of clobber.
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- conscribed — Simple past tense and past participle of conscribe.
- contribute — If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
- cor blimey — an exclamation of surprise or annoyance