10-letter words containing b, o, r
- sobersided — solemn or grave in disposition, attitude, character, etc.; serious-minded.
- sobersides — a humorless or habitually serious person.
- soda bread — an Irish quick bread leavened with baking soda, usually made with buttermilk.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- somberness — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- sombrerite — a lime and alumina phosphoric compound
- soubresaut — a jump performed with the legs held together and the body erect but slightly curved to the side.
- soubriquet — sobriquet.
- soundboard — sounding board.
- sourcebook — a book which contains sources of information on a particular subject
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- sports bag — a bag used by an individual to carry his or her clothing and equipment for taking part in sport
- sports bar — a bar featuring televised sporting events.
- sports bra — a woman's undergarment designed for extra support and protection during sports and recreational activities.
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- statesboro — a town in E Georgia.
- stereobate — the foundation or base upon which a building or the like is erected.
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- stoneborer — an animal that can bore through rocks, esp certain types of bivalve molluscs that bore into limestone
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- storksbill — Also called heron's-bill. any of various plants belonging to the genus Erodium, of the geranium family, having deeply lobed leaves, loose clusters of pink, purple, white, or yellow flowers, and long, slender fruit.
- storm belt — an area of the earth's surface in which storms are frequent
- storm boat — assault boat.
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- storyboard — a panel or panels on which a sequence of sketches depict the significant changes of action and scene in a planned film, as for a movie, television show, or advertisement.
- strabotomy — the operation of cutting one or more of the muscles of the eye to correct strabismus.
- strasbourg — a department in NE France. 1848 sq. mi. (4785 sq. km). Capital: Strasbourg.
- straw boss — someone who works alongside other workers but who also acts in a supervisory role; assistant foreman
- straw-boss — to act as a straw boss to: She was assigned to straw-boss the night shift.
- strawboard — coarse, yellow paperboard made of straw pulp, used in packing, for making boxes, etc.
- strip bond — a bond that has been stripped into its principal certificate and interest coupons, each part to be sold separately.
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- strobiloid — resembling a strobila
- strobotron — a glow lamp, used in stroboscopes, that gives very bright flashes of light in response to voltage pulses.
- strongbark — any of the several tropical American shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Bourreria, of the borage family, especially B. ovata, of southern Florida and the West Indies, having elliptic leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
- stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
- sub-reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- sub-sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- subcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subjoinder — something subjoined, as an additional comment.
- subjugator — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- submersion — to submerge.
- subofficer — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- suborbital — (of a spacecraft) not in orbit; not achieving an altitude and velocity resulting in a ballistic trajectory circling the earth at least once.
- subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.