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10-letter words containing b, o, r, u

  • body scrub — a product designed to exfoliate the skin
  • bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore
  • bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
  • boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
  • bois brule — métis (def 2).
  • bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
  • boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
  • bongo drum — small hand drum
  • bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
  • 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.
  • book group — A book group is a group of people who meet regularly to discuss books that they have read.
  • boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
  • bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
  • borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
  • bosun bird — tropic bird.
  • bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
  • bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
  • boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
  • bound form — a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def 2).
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
  • bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
  • bourbonism — support for the rule of the Bourbons, the European royal line that ruled in France, Spain, and Naples and Sicily at various times in the late 16th to early 20th centuries
  • bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
  • bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
  • bow rudder — (in canoeing) a technique in which a paddler in the bow holds the paddle at an angle from the side of the bow, using it as a rudder to steer.
  • box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
  • box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
  • box number — A box number is a number used as an address, for example one given by a newspaper for replies to a private advertisement, or one used by an organization for the letters sent to it.
  • box supper — a social gathering, as at a church, at which box lunches donated by women are auctioned off to raise funds
  • box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
  • branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
  • brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
  • brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
  • brian boru — ?941–1014, king of Ireland (1002–14): killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf
  • broad jump — an exercise and athletic contest in which competitors try to jump the farthest distance possible from a standing start from a fixed board or mark
  • broad-jump — long-jump.
  • broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
  • brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
  • brontosaur — apatosaurus
  • brought on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
  • brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
  • brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
  • buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
  • budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
  • buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
  • bugger off — If someone buggers off, they go away quickly and suddenly. People often say bugger off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
  • buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
  • bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
  • bull trout — any large trout, esp the salmon trout
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