11-letter words containing b, o, r
- overblowing — A technique for playing a wind instrument so as to produce overtones.
- overbooking — Present participle of overbook.
- overbridges — Plural form of overbridge.
- overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
- overburthen — to overburden
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- overobvious — too obvious
- oxbow front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a curve with a concave section between two convex ones.
- oxford bags — trousers with very wide baggy legs, originally popular in the 1920s
- oxford blue — a dark blue colour
- oyster crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres ostreum, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of oysters.
- pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- paddleboard — a type of surfboard with one end rounded and the other tapered to a point, used chiefly in surfing and often in lifesaving.
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
- parabolical — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- parcel bomb — explosive device in a package
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- parson bird — tui.
- patrol boat — a boat designed to patrol a coastal area, etc for security, observation and defence
- pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
- pease-brose — brose made from a meal of dried peas
- performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- petrol bomb — Molotov cocktail.
- phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
- phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
- polar orbit — a spacecraft orbit that passes over, or close to, the geographic poles of the earth or some other celestial body.
- polarizable — to cause polarization in.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- pork barrel — a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
- port number — port
- port talbot — a port in SE Wales, in Neath Port Talbot county borough on Swansea Bay: established as a coal port in the mid-19th century; large steelworks; ore terminal. Pop: 35 633 (2001)
- portability — the state or quality of being portable.
- postorbital — located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.
- postpuberty — the period after puberty
- pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- pouring box — tundish (def 2).
- powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
- powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
- power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
- power brand — a brand of product that is a household name associated with a successful company
- power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
- powerboater — a powerboat owner or operator.
- powerbroker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- prayer book — a book containing formal prayers to be used in public or private religious devotions.
- pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
- preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.