10-letter words containing b, o, u, r
- bulldogger — a person who brings an animal, esp a steer, to the ground by twisting its head from the horns
- bullroarer — a wooden slat attached to a thong that makes a roaring sound when the thong is whirled: used esp by native Australians in religious rites
- bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- bunt order — a dominance hierarchy seen in herds of cattle, established and maintained by bunting.
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- buonarroti — Michelangelo.
- bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
- burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
- burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- burma road — the route extending from Lashio in Burma (now Myanmar) to Chongqing in China, which was used by the Allies during World War II to supply military equipment to Chiang Kai-shek's forces in China
- burned-out — consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use: a burned-out tube.
- burst into — If you burst into tears, laughter, or song, you suddenly begin to cry, laugh, or sing.
- bush broom — an evergreen St.-John's-wort, Hypericum prolificum, common from New York to Iowa and southward, having yellow flowers in terminal clusters.
- butterwort — a plant of the genus Pinguicula, esp P. vulgaris, that grows in wet places and has violet-blue spurred flowers and fleshy greasy glandular leaves on which insects are trapped and digested: family Lentibulariaceae
- button ear — a dog's ear that folds forward completely.
- by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- cherubicon — the hymn sung during the Great Entrance by the choir, which represents the cherubim.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- chorus boy — a male singer or dancer of the chorus of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, etc.
- cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)
- cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
- cockleburr — Alternative form of cocklebur.
- cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
- colour bar — discrimination against people of a different race, esp as practised by White people against Black people
- colourable — capable of being coloured
- colourbred — (of an animal) bred to be a particular colour
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- comburgess — (formerly) a fellow citizen or freeman of a borough
- combustors — Plural form of combustor.
- confabular — of or relating to confabulation
- contribute — If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
- corbel out — to support on corbels
- cordonbleu — any of several small African finches of the genus Uraeginthus, having pale blue and buff plumage and commonly kept as cage birds.
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- coulterneb — The puffin.
- counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
- counterbug — (humour) A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
- courbevoie — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 85 716 (2006)
- coursebook — a book studied on an educational course
- court tomb — a type of Neolithic trapezoidal burial mound having a semicircular forecourt at one end and bounded by large standing stones, common in the British Isles.
- crab louse — a parasitic louse, Pthirus (or Phthirus) pubis, that infests the pubic region in humans
- cross buck — an offensive play in which two running backs cross paths and charge into the line on opposite sides, one back receiving the ball from the quarterback and the other back faking possession.
- croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach