11-letter words containing b, o, r
- bioprinting — the construction of replacement body parts using techniques developed for three-dimensional printing
- bioregional — relating to a bioregion
- bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
- bipartition — divided into or consisting of two parts.
- bird's-foot — a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus, with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
- birddogging — the act of pursuing with determination
- birobidzhan — a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
- bit-robbing — in-band signalling
- bitter dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- black ivory — Black slaves collectively
- black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
- bladdernose — hooded seal
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- blagonravov — Anatoli Arkadyevich [an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee uhr-kah-dyi-vyich] /ˈæn əˌtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi ʌrˈkɑ dyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1975, Russian scientist.
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- bleu-de-roi — the bright enamel blue color characteristic of Sèvres ware.
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- block chord — a two-handed chord played usually in the middle range of the piano with the left hand duplicating or complementing the right-hand notes.
- block front — Furniture. a front of a desk, chest of drawers, etc., of the third quarter of the 18th century, having three vertical divisions of equal width, a sunken one between raised ones, all divided by flat areas to which they are connected by curves, often with a shell motif forming a rounded termination to each section.
- block grant — (in Britain) an annual grant made by the government to a local authority to help to pay for the public services it provides, such as health, education, and housing
- block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
- block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
- block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
- blood donor — A blood donor is someone who gives some of their blood so that it can be used in operations.
- blood group — Someone's blood group is the type of blood that they have in their body. There are four main types: A, B, AB, and O.
- blood purge — the mass execution, especially by a government, of persons considered guilty of treason or sedition.
- blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- blood sport — Blood sports are sports such as hunting in which animals are killed.
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
- bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
- bloodletter — someone or something which lets blood
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- bloodsucker — A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.
- bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
- blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
- blue grouse — a grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, of W North America, having a bluish-grey plumage with a black tail
- blue ribbon — A blue ribbon is the same as a blue riband.
- blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
- blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.