13-letter words containing b, o, e, r
- breast pocket — The breast pocket of a man's coat or jacket is a pocket, usually on the inside, next to his chest.
- breast stroke — a swimming stroke performed face down in which both arms are extended outward and sideways from a position close to the chest, while the legs engage in a frog kick
- breaststroker — a person who swims breaststroke
- breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
- breeches buoy — a ring-shaped life buoy with a support in the form of a pair of short breeches, in which a person is suspended for safe transfer from a ship
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- breidha fjord — an inlet of Denmark Strait on the NW coast of Iceland.
- brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
- bretton woods — resort in the White Mountains, N.H.: site of a United Nations monetary conference (1944) at which the International Monetary Fund was established
- brevirostrate — having a short beak or bill
- brewer's mole — hairy-tailed mole.
- bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
- bring home to — to convince of
- bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
- bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
- broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
- broad-brimmed — (of a hat) having a broad brim
- broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
- broccoli rabe — a plant, Brassica rapa ruvo, of which the slightly bitter, dark-green leaves and clustered flower buds are eaten as a vegetable.
- broiler house — a building in which broiler chickens are reared in confined conditions
- broken-winded — suffering from heaves
- brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
- bromo-seltzer — a compound containing a bromide, sodium bicarbonate, etc., used for relief from headaches and upset stomachs, and as a sedative
- bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
- bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
- bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
- brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- brown creeper — a small bush bird, Finschia novaeseelandiae, of South Island, New Zealand
- brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
- brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
- bubble memory — a method of storing high volumes of data by the use of minute pockets of magnetism (bubbles) in a semiconducting material. The bubbles may be caused to migrate past a read head or to a buffer area for storage
- budget period — the time which a budget covers
- buffalo berry — a shrub (genus Shepherdia) of the oleaster family, native to W North America, with silvery leaves
- buffalo grove — a city in NE Illinois.
- buffer memory — a temporary holding area for data
- bulbourethral — of or relating to the rounded mass of tissue surrounding the urethra at the root of the penis.
- bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
- buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
- buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
- butcher block — designating or of a thick slab made by gluing together strips of hardwood, as maple or oak, used for counter and table tops, etc.
- butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
- butter cookie — Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.
- butter cooler — an earthenware container, consisting of a dish and cover, used to keep butter cool
- buttress root — a tree root that extends above ground as a platelike outgrowth of the trunk supporting the tree. Buttress roots are mainly found in trees of tropical rain forests