10-letter words containing b, o, h, r
- prohibitor — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- push broom — a wide broom with a long handle, pushed by hand and used for sweeping large areas.
- pyrophobia — an abnormal fear of fire.
- pyrophobic — an abnormal fear of fire.
- quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
- 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
- rhabdomere — one of the many parts that makes up a rhabdom
- rhomboidal — shaped almost like a diamond or rhomboid
- rhomboides — a rhomboid
- ribbonfish — any of several marine fishes of the families Trachipteridae, Regalicidae, and Lophotidae, having a long, compressed, ribbonlike body.
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- roach back — an arched back, as of a dog.
- robin hood — John Bell, 1831–79, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- roman bath — public spa
- rubythroat — a ruby-throated hummingbird
- russophobe — a person who hates or fears Russia or the Russians.
- sag harbor — a resort town on E Long Island in SE New York.
- schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
- seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- seborrhoea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- sherbrooke — a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada.
- shore bird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
- shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- short bill — a bill of exchange that is payable at sight, on demand, or within less than ten days
- short ribs — the rib ends of beef from the forequarter, next to the plate
- 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.
- smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
- snow-broth — melted snow.
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- 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
- thrombosis — intravascular coagulation of the blood in any part of the circulatory system, as in the heart, arteries, veins, or capillaries.
- thrombotic — intravascular coagulation of the blood in any part of the circulatory system, as in the heart, arteries, veins, or capillaries.
- 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.
- thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
- toothbrush — a small brush with a long handle, for cleaning the teeth.
- turboshaft — a gas turbine used to deliver shaft power, as to a helicopter rotor.
- turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turnbroach — (formerly) a servant whose job was to turn the spit on which meat, poultry, etc, was roasting
- umber moth — any of various brownish geometrid moths, esp the waved umber (Menophra abruptaria) and small waved umber (Horisme vitalbata), that are cryptically marked to merge with tree bark, and the mottled umber (Erannis defoliaria) whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
- unbothered — not experiencing mental or physical discomfort: He was unbothered by the cold. He was unbothered about not being picked for the team.