10-letter words containing b, o, r, a
- boko haram — a militant and violent Islamic organization established in NE Nigeria in 2002 and also active in Niger, Chad, and Cameroon
- bomb aimer — a person whose job is to aim a bomb to be dropped from an aircraft
- bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
- bombardier — the member of a bomber aircrew responsible for aiming and releasing the bombs
- bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bon marche — a bargain.
- bond paper — a superior quality of strong white paper, used esp for writing and typing
- bone earth — bone ash.
- boneshaker — an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
- booby-trap — A booby-trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched.
- book share — a share of a mutual fund credited to the account of a shareholder without the physical issuance of a certificate evidencing ownership.
- bookmarked — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- bookreader — DEC's CD-ROM-based on-line documentation browser.
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- borah peak — a mountain in central Idaho, in the Lost River Range: highest peak in Idaho. 12,662 feet (3861 meters).
- borax bead — a bead of fused borax, used in chemical analysis for the identification of certain metal oxides.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
- bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
- borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.
- bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
- boric acid — a white soluble weakly acid crystalline solid used in the manufacture of heat-resistant glass and porcelain enamels, as a fireproofing material, and as a mild antiseptic. Formula: H3BO3
- boring bar — Metalworking. a bar holding a tool for boring a cylinder or the like.
- born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
- borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
- 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
- brace root — prop root.
- brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
- brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- brahmaloka — the highest part of Kamaloka, where refined souls exist in blissful contemplation of Brahma.
- brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- brake shoe — the curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- brassboard — in certain types of engineering, an experimental model at a more advanced stage of development than a breadboard (sense 2)
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- bravissimo — very well done! excellent!