9-letter words containing b, o, r, e
- bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
- blood red — of the deep-red color of blood: a fiery, blood-red sunset.
- blood-red — Something that is blood-red is bright red in colour.
- blootered — intoxicated; drunk
- blow over — If something such as trouble or an argument blows over, it ends without any serious consequences.
- blue roan — a horse having a black coat sprinkled with white hairs
- boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boat ride — a ride in a boat
- bock beer — heavy dark strong beer
- bodeguero — a wine-seller or grocer
- boerewors — a highly seasoned traditional sausage made from minced or pounded meat
- bog paper — toilet paper
- bogometer — (humour) /boh-gom'-*t-er/ A notional instrument for measuring bogosity. Compare the "wankometer" described in the wank entry.
- boil over — When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
- boil-over — an unexpected result.
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- bolometer — a sensitive instrument for measuring radiant energy by the increase in the resistance of an electrical conductor
- bolstered — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bombarded — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bombarder — a person or thing which bombards
- bombaster — a person who stuffs or pads
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- bonderize — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
- bonetired — completely exhausted
- boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
- book rest — a support for an open book, usually holding it at a slight angle.
- booklover — a person who enjoys reading books.
- bookmaker — A bookmaker is a person whose job is to take your money when you bet and to pay you money if you win.
- bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
- bookstore — A bookstore is a shop where books are sold.
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- boot tree — a shoetree for a boot, often having supports to stretch the leg of the boot
- bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- border on — If you talk about a characteristic or situation bordering on something, usually something that you consider bad, you mean that it is almost that thing.
- bordereau — a memorandum or invoice prepared for a company by an underwriter, containing a list of reinsured risks
- bordering — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
- borescope — a long narrow optical device used to inspect the interior of a tight space
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- borghetto — (in Italy) a settlement outside a city's walls
- born-free — (in South Africa) a person who was born or grew up after the end of the Apartheid era
- bosberaad — a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- botmaster — (chat) The owner of a bot.
- boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
- boulderer — a rock climber
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.