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10-letter words containing b, o, r

  • tote board — a totalizator.
  • tourbillon — a device in a mechanical watch which prevents errors due to changes in gravity
  • tower bolt — barrel bolt.
  • trade book — a book designed for the general public and available through an ordinary book dealer, as distinguished from a limited-edition book, textbook, mass market paperback, etc.
  • trail boss — (in Western U.S.) a person responsible for driving a herd of cattle.
  • trailboard — an ornamented board extending on each side of the bow of a vessel from a figurehead or the like to abaft the hawse.
  • traymobile — a small table on casters used for conveying food, drink, etc
  • tribometer — an instrument used to estimate rubbing friction
  • tribromide — a bromide containing three atoms of bromine.
  • trilobated — having three lobes
  • trolleybus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
  • trombonist — musician who plays the trombone
  • tropicbird — any of several web-footed seabirds of the family Phaethontidae, chiefly of tropical seas, having white plumage with black markings and a pair of greatly elongated central tail feathers.
  • troubadour — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
  • troubledly — in a troubled manner
  • trowbridge — a market town in SW England, administrative centre of Wiltshire: woollen manufacturing. Pop: 34 401 (2001)
  • trubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
  • tuberculo- — tubercular
  • tuberiform — in the form of a tuber
  • tuberosity — a rough projection or protuberance of a bone, as for the attachment of a muscle.
  • tucker-box — a box used to store or carry food.
  • turbo pump — a turbine powered pump
  • turboshaft — a gas turbine used to deliver shaft power, as to a helicopter rotor.
  • turbotrain — a train powered by a gas-turbine locomotive.
  • turbulator — a device that is designed to make air flow more smoothly over the wing of an aircraft and minimize turbulence
  • turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
  • turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
  • turnbroach — (formerly) a servant whose job was to turn the spit on which meat, poultry, etc, was roasting
  • twice-born — Hinduism. of or relating to members of the Indian castes of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas, who undergo a spiritual rebirth and initiation in adolescence.
  • twig borer — any of several beetles, beetle larvae, or moth larvae that bore into the twigs of plants.
  • two-bagger — two-base hit.
  • ulan bator — a republic in E central Asia, in N Mongolia. About 600,000 sq. mi. (1,500,000 sq. km). Capital: Ulan Bator.
  • umber moth — any of various brownish geometrid moths, esp the waved umber (Menophra abruptaria) and small waved umber (Horisme vitalbata), that are cryptically marked to merge with tree bark, and the mottled umber (Erannis defoliaria) whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
  • umberto ii — 1904–83, the last king of Italy (1946), following the abdication of his father Victor Emmanuel III: abdicated when a referendum supported the abolition of the monarchy
  • umbiliform — having the form of an umbilicus.
  • umbrageous — creating or providing shade; shady: an umbrageous tree.
  • unabsorbed — not absorbed or taken in
  • unborrowed — not borrowed
  • unbothered — not experiencing mental or physical discomfort: He was unbothered by the cold. He was unbothered about not being picked for the team.
  • unbroached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
  • underbough — a low-lying tree branch
  • unforcible — not able to be forced
  • unfordable — (of a river, flood, stream, etc) not able to be forded
  • unilobular — having or consisting of one lobule
  • unlaboured — (of writing or artwork) not showing effort, but natural and flowing in style
  • unobscured — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
  • unobserved — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
  • unprobated — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
  • unprovable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • untroubled — without trouble, discomfort, or disturbance: an easy, untroubled life; He was untroubled by daily setbacks.
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