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10-letter words containing b, r, o, c

  • body scrub — a product designed to exfoliate the skin
  • body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
  • bog orchid — an orchid, Hammarbya (or Malaxis) paludosa, growing in sphagnum bogs in the N hemisphere. It has greenish-yellow flowers and its leaves bear a fringe of tiny bulbils
  • bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
  • bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
  • bon marche — a bargain.
  • book cover — the cover of a book
  • book price — the value of a car as defined by the manufacturers or other accredited organization
  • boondocker — combat boot.
  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • boric acid — a white soluble weakly acid crystalline solid used in the manufacture of heat-resistant glass and porcelain enamels, as a fireproofing material, and as a mild antiseptic. Formula: H3BO3
  • bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
  • box camera — a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
  • box clever — to behave in a careful and cunning way
  • box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
  • box wrench — a wrench with a completely enclosed head, used to hold and turn nuts and bolts
  • brace root — prop root.
  • brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
  • brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
  • brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
  • brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
  • branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
  • branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
  • brickworks — a factory or plant where bricks are made
  • brno chair — an armchair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless steel composed of two interlocking parts, one forming the legs and arms and the other the seat and back frame, with the back and seat lightly upholstered and usually covered with leather.
  • broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
  • broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
  • broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
  • broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
  • brocatelle — a heavy brocade with the design in deep relief, used chiefly in upholstery
  • broccolini — a cultivated variety of cabbage, Brassica B. oleracea, which resembles broccoli and is eaten as a green vegetable
  • brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
  • brockville — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
  • bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
  • bronchitic — acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining of the bronchial tubes, caused by respiratory infection or exposure to bronchial irritants, as cigarette smoke.
  • bronchitis — Bronchitis is an illness like a very bad cough, in which your bronchial tubes become sore and infected.
  • broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
  • brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
  • brown coat — arriccio.
  • brown rice — unpolished rice, in which the grains retain the outer yellowish-brown layer (bran)
  • buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
  • bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
  • 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.
  • by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
  • cabo verde — a republic in the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa, consisting of a group of ten islands and five islets: an overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, when the islands became independent. Official language: Portuguese. Religion: Christian (Roman Catholic) majority; animist minority. Currency: Cape Verdean escudo. Capital: Praia. Pop: 531 046 (2013 est). Area: 4033 sq km (1557 sq miles)
  • cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
  • calibrator — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • call-board — a bulletin board, as in a theater, on which notices are posted announcing rehearsals, changes in the cast, etc.
  • canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
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