10-letter words containing b, o, r
- de broglie — Prince Louis Victor (lwi viktɔr). 1892–1987, French physicist, noted for his research in quantum mechanics and his development of wave mechanics: Nobel prize for physics 1929
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- debonnaire — courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm: a debonair gentleman.
- debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
- decaborane — (inorganic compound) The stable borane B10H14.
- deformable — to mar the natural form or shape of; put out of shape; disfigure: In cases where the drug was taken during pregnancy, its effects deformed the infants.
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- deplorable — If you say that something is deplorable, you think that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- deplorably — causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
- deportable — liable to deportation
- dibromides — Plural form of dibromide.
- dirty bomb — a nuclear warhead designed to produce a great amount of radioactive debris by use of a fusion core, fission trigger, and casing of uranium-238.
- disembargo — to remove an embargo from.
- disembroil — to free from embroilment, entanglement, or confusion.
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- dogberries — Plural form of dogberry.
- dollarbird — a common roller, Eurystomus orientalis, of Asia and Australia, having on its wings a silvery spot the size of a dollar.
- donn-byrne — Brian Oswald ("Donn Byrne") 1889–1928, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- donnybrook — an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
- doorbuster — Informal. a retail item that is heavily discounted for a very limited time in order to draw customers to the store. the price of such an item.
- dorbeetles — Plural form of dorbeetle.
- double bar — a double vertical line on a staff indicating the conclusion of a piece of music or a subdivision of it.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- dough bird — the Eskimo curlew.
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- drainboard — a working surface beside or on a kitchen sink, formed and inclined to drain into the sink.
- dream book — a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.
- dreamboats — Plural form of dreamboat.
- dronabinol — Synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
- drop elbow — an elbow having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
- drug baron — the head of an organization that deals in illegal drugs
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- dumbledore — (dialectal) A bumblebee.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- elaborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elaborate.
- elaborator — One who, or that which, elaborates.
- elbow room — Elbow room is the freedom to do what you want to do or need to do in a particular situation.
- elbow-rest — something designed for resting one's elbow on
- embargoing — Present participle of embargo.
- embassador — Archaic form of ambassador.
- emblazoner — Someone who emblazons.