11-letter words containing b, o, r
- roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
- roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- rooibos tea — tea prepared from any of several species of Borbonia or Aspalanthus, believed to have tonic properties
- root bridge — (communications, hardware, networking) A bridge which continuously transmits network topology information to other bridges, using the spanning tree protocol, in order to notify all other bridges on the network when topology changes are required. This means that a network is able to reconfigure itself whenever a network link (e.g. another bridge) fails, so an alternative path can be found. The presence of a root bridge also prevents loops from forming in the network. The root bridge is where the paths that frames take through the network they are assigned. It should be located centrally on the network to provide the shortest path to other links on the network. Unlike other bridges, the root bridge always forwards frames out over all of its ports. Every network should only have one root bridge. It should have the lowest bridge ID number.
- rose beetle — rose chafer.
- rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.
- rotor blade — one airfoil of the rotor of a rotary-wing aircraft.
- round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
- round table — conference, meeting
- round-robin — a sequence or series.
- round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
- rove beetle — any of numerous beetles of the family Staphylinidae, having a slender, elongated body and very short front wings, and capable of running swiftly.
- rowing boat — rowboat.
- rowing club — rowboat association
- royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
- rubber boot — Rubber boots are long boots made of rubber that you wear to keep your feet dry.
- rubber room — Informal. a room padded with foam rubber for the confinement of a violent mentally ill person.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- rumbustious — rambunctious.
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
- safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
- sailboarder — windsurfer
- salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
- saprobiotic — saprobic
- sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- scarabaeoid — resembling a scarab.
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
- seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
- serbo-croat — Serbo-Croat is one of the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- silver book — (publication) Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
- skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
- slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
- slave labor — persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
- sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy