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10-letter words containing b, o, r

  • rubiginous — rusty; rust-colored; brownish-red.
  • rubythroat — a ruby-throated hummingbird
  • rumbullion — a drink of rum
  • russophobe — a person who hates or fears Russia or the Russians.
  • sag harbor — a resort town on E Long Island in SE New York.
  • sailboater — a person who sails a boat
  • salubrious — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
  • scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
  • schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
  • scoreboard — a large, usually rectangular board in a ballpark, sports arena, or the like, that shows the score of a contest and often other relevant facts and figures, as the count of balls and strikes on a baseball batter.
  • scottsboro — a town in NE Alabama.
  • scrobicule — a small pit, for example around one of a sea urchin's nodules
  • scroll bar — computers;
  • scrollable — able to be scrolled
  • scrub fowl — megapode.
  • scrubboard — washboard (defs 1, 2).
  • scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
  • scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
  • sea robber — a pirate.
  • seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
  • seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
  • sebiferous — producing or carrying a fatty, oily, or waxlike substance
  • seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
  • seborrhoea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
  • sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
  • sherbrooke — a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada.
  • shore bird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
  • shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • short bill — a bill of exchange that is payable at sight, on demand, or within less than ten days
  • short ribs — the rib ends of beef from the forequarter, next to the plate
  • shortboard — a type of surfboard that is shorter than standard
  • shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
  • showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
  • sibilatory — characterized by hissing or whistling
  • sideboards — a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding articles of table service.
  • skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • slobbering — to let saliva or liquid run from the mouth; slaver; drivel.
  • sloth bear — a coarse-haired, long-snouted bear, Ursus ursinus, of India and Indochina: now rare.
  • slumberous — sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.
  • small-bore — of, noting, or relating to a .22-caliber firearm.
  • smart bomb — a steerable air-to-surface bomb that is guided to its target by television or a laser beam.
  • smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
  • smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
  • smorrebrod — hors d'oeuvres served on slices of buttered bread
  • snail bore — drill1 (def 5).
  • snobocracy — a social class of snobs
  • snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
  • snow-broth — melted snow.
  • snowblower — a motor-driven machine on wheels used to remove snow by throwing it into the air and to one side.
  • sob sister — a journalist who writes human-interest stories with sentimental pathos.
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