10-letter words containing b, o, r
- board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
- board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
- boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
- boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
- boat train — A boat train is a train that takes you to or from a port.
- boatwright — a craftsman who builds wooden boats.
- bobbysoxer — an adolescent girl wearing bobbysocks, esp in the 1940s
- bobsledder — a person who bobsleds
- boca raton — city in SE Fla., near Fort Lauderdale: pop. 75,000
- boccherini — Luigi (luˈidʒi). 1743–1805, Italian composer and cellist
- bodhi tree — the sacred peepul at Buddh Gaya under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha
- body armor — Body armor is special protective clothing that people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
- body forth — to give shape or form to
- body odour — Body odour is an unpleasant smell caused by sweat on a person's body.
- body press — a hold in which a wrestler places full body weight on a supine opponent in trying to pin the opponent's shoulders to the mat.
- body scrub — a product designed to exfoliate the skin
- body shirt — a close-fitting shirt or blouse having a shape and seams that follow the contours of the body.
- body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- bodyworker — a person involved in the building or repair of bodywork
- bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore
- bog myrtle — sweet gale.
- bog orchid — an orchid, Hammarbya (or Malaxis) paludosa, growing in sphagnum bogs in the N hemisphere. It has greenish-yellow flowers and its leaves bear a fringe of tiny bulbils
- bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
- bogtrotter — a highly offensive term for an Irish person
- bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
- bois brule — métis (def 2).
- bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
- bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
- boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
- boko haram — a militant and violent Islamic organization established in NE Nigeria in 2002 and also active in Niger, Chad, and Cameroon
- boldrewood — Rolf, real name Thomas Alexander Browne. 1826–1915, Australian writer, born in the UK, noted for his novels of the Australian outback, esp Robbery Under Arms (1882–3)
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bomb aimer — a person whose job is to aim a bomb to be dropped from an aircraft
- bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
- bombardier — the member of a bomber aircrew responsible for aiming and releasing the bombs
- bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bon marche — a bargain.
- bond paper — a superior quality of strong white paper, used esp for writing and typing
- bondholder — A bondholder is a person who owns one or more investment bonds.
- bone earth — bone ash.
- bonesetter — a person who sets broken or dislocated bones, esp one who has no formal medical qualifications
- boneshaker — an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs
- bongo drum — small hand drum
- bonhoeffer — Dietrich (ˈdiːtrɪç). 1906–45, German Lutheran theologian: executed by the Nazis
- bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
- bonnetiere — a tall, narrow wardrobe of the 18th century, found especially in Normandy and Brittany.
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.