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11-letter words containing b, o, r

  • timbromania — a mania or passion for stamp-collecting
  • timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
  • to be frank — You can say 'to be frank' or 'to be frank with you' to introduce a statement which is your honest opinion, especially when the person you are talking to might not like it.
  • to go broke — If a company or person goes broke, they lose money and are unable to continue in business or to pay their debts.
  • tobacco jar — a container formerly used for storing tobacco and keeping it fresh
  • tocharian b — the western dialect of Tocharian
  • toghril beg — ?990–1063 ad, Sultan of Turkey (1055–63), who founded the Seljuq dynasty and conquered Baghdad (1055)
  • toll bridge — a bridge at which a toll is charged.
  • toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
  • topless bar — a bar in which barmaids or waitresses work naked from the waist up
  • torchbearer — a person who carries a torch.
  • torsibility — resistance to torsion.
  • torsion bar — a metal bar having elasticity when subjected to torsion: used as a spring in various machines and in automobile suspensions.
  • touch rugby — a limited-contact version of rugby in which players seek to evade being touched (rather than tackled) while in possession of the ball
  • tourbillion — a whirlwind or something resembling a whirlwind.
  • tower block — a high-rise building.
  • trailbaston — a judging commission first created by Edward I of England which punished crimes and trespass
  • transborder — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
  • transphobia — unreasoning hostility, aversion, etc., toward transgender people.
  • travel book — a book about travelling to a certain country or region, esp a guidebook
  • treasonable — of the nature of treason.
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
  • tribologist — a student of, or expert in, tribology
  • tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
  • tricone bit — A tricone bit is a drill bit with a head that is divided into three main parts.
  • triphibious — employing or involving land, naval, and air forces in a combined operation.
  • triple bond — a chemical linkage consisting of three covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by three lines or six dots, as CH≡CH or CH⋮⋮CH.
  • trobar clus — a complex and obscure style of writing adopted by some 12th-century Provençal poets.
  • troglobiont — any creature having a cave-dwelling mode of life.
  • trolley bus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
  • trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
  • trombiculid — (of a mite) belonging to the family Trombiculidae
  • trophoblast — the layer of extraembryonic ectoderm that chiefly nourishes the embryo or develops into fetal membranes with nutritive functions.
  • tropic bird — any of several web-footed seabirds of the family Phaethontidae, chiefly of tropical seas, having white plumage with black markings and a pair of greatly elongated central tail feathers.
  • troubadours — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
  • troubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
  • trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
  • troubleshot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
  • tuberaceous — belonging or relating to the order of fungi Tuberaceae, or specifically the truffle genus (Tuber)
  • tuberculoid — resembling a tubercle.
  • tuberculoma — a tumour or other mass that grows from a tuberculous lesion or caused by the tubercle bacillus
  • tuberculose — tuberculate.
  • tuberculous — tubercular.
  • tubiflorous — tubuliflorous.
  • tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
  • tumble over — If someone or something tumbles over, they fall, often with a rolling or bouncing movement.
  • turbocharge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
  • turn button — button (def 9).
  • two-by-four — two units thick and four units wide, especially in inches.
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