10-letter words containing b, o, r
- reprobance — reprobation.
- reprobator — an action taken to demonstrate that a witness should be disqualified or rejected on account of perjury or other cause of invalidity
- reprovable — deserving of reproof.
- resolvable — that can be resolved.
- restorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- retributor — a person who retributes
- 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
- ribbentrop — Joachim von [yoh-ah-khim fuh n] /ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm fən/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, German leader in the Nazi party: minister of foreign affairs 1938–45; executed for war crimes.
- ribbonfish — any of several marine fishes of the families Trachipteridae, Regalicidae, and Lophotidae, having a long, compressed, ribbonlike body.
- ribbonwood — a small evergreen malvaceous tree, Hoheria populnea, of New Zealand. Its wood is used in furniture making and the tough bark for making cord
- riboflavin — a vitamin B complex factor appearing as an orange-yellow, crystalline compound, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 4 O 6 , derived from ribose, essential for growth, found in milk, fresh meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, etc., or made synthetically, and used in enriching flour, in vitamin preparations, and in treating facial lesions.
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- rigid body — A rigid body is a body that does not deform or vibrate.
- rio balsas — Río, Río Balsas.
- rio branco — a state in W Brazil. 58,900 sq. mi. (152,550 sq. km). Capital: Rio Branco.
- rise above — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- roach back — an arched back, as of a dog.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- robber fly — any of numerous swift-flying, often large, dipterous insects of the family Asilidae that are predaceous on other insects.
- roberdsman — a robber
- robert iii — ?1337–1406, king of Scotland (1390–1406), son of Robert II
- robin hood — John Bell, 1831–79, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
- roborating — strengthening or invigorating
- robot bomb — a rocket-propelled, gyroscopically steered bomb equipped with wings and control surfaces, usually launched from the ground.
- roboticist — a specialist in robots or robotics.
- robustious — rough, rude, or boisterous.
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- 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.
- rock borer — any of various sea creatures that bore into rock, such as some sea urchins, sponges, annelid worms, barnacles, isopods, and molluscs
- rock brake — any of various ferns of the genera Pellaea and Cryptogramma, which grow on rocky ground and have sori at the ends of the veins
- rock climb — an instance of rock climbing or the route followed
- rock-bound — hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky: the rock-bound coast of Maine.
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- rollerball — ballpoint pen
- roman bath — public spa
- root borer — any insect or insect larva that bores into the roots of plants
- rose noble — a former gold coin of England, first issued by Edward IV, being the existing noble with a figure of a rose added to the types on either side: much imitated on the Continent, especially in the Netherlands.
- roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- roustabout — a wharf laborer or deck hand, as on the Mississippi River.
- rowanberry — a mountain ash tree
- royal blue — a deep blue, often with a faint reddish tinge.
- rub off on — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rubblework — masonry built of rubble or roughly dressed stones.
- rubiaceous — belonging to the Rubiaceae, the madder family of plants.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty