10-letter words containing b, o, r
- bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
- booby-trap — A booby-trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched.
- book cover — the cover of a book
- book group — A book group is a group of people who meet regularly to discuss books that they have read.
- book lover — a person who enjoys reading and reads more than the average person
- book price — the value of a car as defined by the manufacturers or other accredited organization
- book share — a share of a mutual fund credited to the account of a shareholder without the physical issuance of a certificate evidencing ownership.
- bookbinder — A bookbinder is a person whose job is fastening books together and putting covers on them.
- bookkeeper — A bookkeeper is a person whose job is to keep an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
- bookmarked — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- bookreader — DEC's CD-ROM-based on-line documentation browser.
- bookseller — A bookseller is a person who sells books.
- bookviewer — A hypertext documentation system from Oracle based on Oracle Toolkit. It allows the user to create private links and bookmarks, and to make multimedia annotations.
- boondocker — combat boot.
- boosterish — designed to boost business; optimistic
- boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
- boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
- bootlegger — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- borah peak — a mountain in central Idaho, in the Lost River Range: highest peak in Idaho. 12,662 feet (3861 meters).
- borax bead — a bead of fused borax, used in chemical analysis for the identification of certain metal oxides.
- borborygmi — a rumbling or gurgling sound caused by the movement of gas in the intestines.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
- bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
- borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.
- borderless — without a band or margin around or along the edge
- borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
- bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
- borer bomb — a device that emits pesticide fumes
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- boric acid — a white soluble weakly acid crystalline solid used in the manufacture of heat-resistant glass and porcelain enamels, as a fireproofing material, and as a mild antiseptic. Formula: H3BO3
- boring bar — Metalworking. a bar holding a tool for boring a cylinder or the like.
- boringness — the quality of being boring
- boris bike — any bicycle rented out by London's public bicycle hire scheme
- born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
- borrow pit — an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
- borrow-pit — a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
- borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
- borrowings — a company's liabilities or indebtedness
- bosun bird — tropic bird.
- bothersome — Someone or something that is bothersome is annoying or irritating.
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- bottletree — any of a genus (Brachychiton) of trees of the sterculia family, native to Australia, some of which have a swollen, bottle-shaped trunk
- bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
- bound form — a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def 2).
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.