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11-letter words containing b, o, r

  • layer board — lear board.
  • leaderboard — a board on which the scores of the leading competitors are displayed, as in a golf tournament.
  • letter bomb — an envelope containing an explosive device designed to detonate when the envelope is opened by the recipient.
  • letterboxed — Simple past tense and past participle of letterbox.
  • letterboxes — Plural form of letterbox.
  • librational — Of or pertaining to libration.
  • lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
  • limber hole — any of a series of holes pierced through a frame or floor to allow the passage of accumulated moisture.
  • lingonberry — mountain cranberry.
  • lobster net — a net used for catching lobsters
  • lobster pot — a trap for catching lobsters, typically a box made of wooden slats with a funnellike entrance to the bait.
  • lobsterback — redcoat.
  • lobsterlike — Resembling a lobster or some aspect of one.
  • local derby — a football match between two teams from the same area
  • lochaber ax — a Scottish battle-ax of the 16th century, having a tall, cleaverlike blade with a hook at its upper end.
  • locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
  • long barrow — a funerary barrow having an elongate shape, sometimes constructed over a megalithic chamber tomb and usually containing one or more inhumed corpses along with artifacts: primarily Neolithic but extending into the Bronze Age.
  • long branch — a city in E New Jersey: seaside resort.
  • lophobranch — belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, sea horses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.
  • lord cobham — title of Sir John Oldcastle
  • lost tribes — the members of the ten tribes of ancient Israel who were taken into captivity in 722 b.c. by Sargon II of Assyria and are believed never to have returned to Palestine. II Kings 17:1–23.
  • lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
  • lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • lubritorium — a place, as in a service station, for the lubrication of motor vehicles
  • lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
  • lucubratory — Composed by candlelight, or at night.
  • lumber room — a room in a house used for storing odds-and-ends, especially old furniture.
  • lumbosacral — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
  • lump labour — work done by self-employed workers in the building trade
  • lunar orbit — path or movement of the moon around the earth
  • macrobiosis — long life.
  • macrobiotic — of or relating to macrobiotics or its dietary practices.
  • mantelboard — mantel.
  • māori bread — bread made with fermented potato yeast
  • maraboutism — Support for marabouts (Muslim holy men or mystics).
  • march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
  • mare boreum — (Northern Sea) an area near the north pole of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • marionberry — a cross between a loganberry and a blackberry
  • marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
  • market boat — a boat that transfers fish from a fishing fleet to a market on shore.
  • marlboroughJohn Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
  • marrow bean — a plump-seeded strain of the common field bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), grown for its dry, edible seeds
  • marrow bone — Marrow bones are the bones of certain animals, especially cows, that contain a lot of bone marrow. They are used in cooking and in dog food.
  • marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
  • maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
  • masturbator — to engage in masturbation.
  • matchboards — Plural form of matchboard.
  • meadow bird — the bobolink.
  • melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
  • memorabilia — Objects kept or collected because of their historical interest, especially those associated with memorable people or events.
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