7-letter words containing b, r, o
- bestorm — to assault
- bestrow — bestrew.
- bethorn — to cover with thorns
- betroth — to promise to marry or to give in marriage
- bewhore — to treat as a whore
- beworry — to beset with worry
- bichord — (of a musical instrument) having two strings for one note
- bicolor — of two colors
- bicorne — a two-cornered cocked hat worn especially in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- bifrost — the rainbow bridge of the gods from their realm Asgard to earth
- bighorn — a large wild sheep, Ovis canadensis, inhabiting mountainous regions in North America and NE Asia: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla. The male has massive curved horns, and the species is well adapted for climbing and leaping
- bigotry — Bigotry is the possession or expression of strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions.
- bimorph — an assembly of two piezoelectric crystals cemented together so that an applied voltage causes one to expand and the other to contract, converting electrical signals into mechanical energy. Conversely, bending can generate a voltage: used in loudspeakers, gramophone pick-ups, etc
- bimotor — an airplane or other vehicle that has two engines.
- bioherm — a mound of material laid down by sedentary marine organisms, esp a coral reef
- biophor — (in Weismann's theory of heredity) a hypothetical particle of the ultimate form of matter
- biotron — a climate-control chamber used to examine how living organisms respond to specific climatic conditions
- biovars — a group of microorganisms, usually bacteria, that have identical genetic but different biochemical or physiological characters.
- bipolar — suffering from bipolar manic-depressive disorder
- birddog — one of any of various breeds of dogs trained to hunt or retrieve birds.
- bistort — a Eurasian polygonaceous plant, Polygonum bistorta, having leaf stipules fused to form a tube around the stem and a spike of small pink flowers
- bit rot — (jargon) A hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed, even if "nothing has changed". The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive. As time passes, the contents of a file or the code in a program will become increasingly garbled. People with a physics background tend to prefer the variant "bit decay" for the analogy with particle decay. There actually are physical processes that produce such effects (alpha particles generated by trace radionuclides in ceramic chip packages, for example, can change the contents of a computer memory unpredictably, and various kinds of subtle media failures can corrupt files in mass storage), but they are quite rare (and computers are built with error detection circuitry to compensate for them). The notion long favoured among hackers that cosmic rays are among the causes of such events turns out to be a myth. Bit rot is the notional cause of software rot. See also computron, quantum bogodynamics.
- bizarro — bizarre
- blawort — the plant Campanula rotundifolia
- bleriot — Louis (lwi). 1872–1936, French aviator and aeronautical engineer: made the first flight across the English Channel (1909)
- bloater — a herring, or sometimes a mackerel, that has been salted in brine, smoked, and cured
- blocker — a person or thing that acts as a block
- blogger — a website containing a writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites.
- blokart — a single-seat three-wheeled vehicle with a sail, built to be propelled over land by the wind
- blonder — (of a woman or girl) having fair hair and usually fair skin and light eyes.
- bloomer — a plant that flowers, esp in a specified way
- blooper — A blooper is a silly mistake.
- blotter — A blotter is a large sheet of blotting paper kept in a special holder on a desk.
- bo tree — the sacred fig tree ( peepul) of Buddhism: Gautama is believed to have received heavenly inspiration under such a tree
- boarded — a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
- boarder — A boarder is a pupil who lives at school during the term.
- boarish — coarse, cruel, or sensual
- boaster — a chisel for boasting stone.
- bobbery — a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
- bodhran — shallow one-sided drum popular in Irish and Scottish folk music
- boerbul — a crossbred mastiff used esp as a watchdog
- bogarde — Sir Dirk, real name Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde. 1920–99, British film actor and writer: his films include The Servant (1963) and Death in Venice (1970). His writings include the autobiographical A Postillion Struck by Lightning (1977) and the novel A Period of Adjustment (1994)
- boggart — a ghost or poltergeist
- boggler — a person who boggles, or a thing which causes one to boggle
- bohrium — a transuranic element artificially produced in minute quantities by bombarding 204Bi atoms with 54Cr nuclei. Symbol: Bh; atomic no: 107
- boiardo — Matteo Maria (matˈtɛːo maˈria), conte de Scandiano. 1434–94, Italian poet; author of the historical epic Orlando Innamorato (1487)
- boilery — a place where water is boiled in order to extract salt
- bojardo — Matteo Maria [mah-tey-oh muh-ree-uh;; Italian maht-te-aw mah-ree-ah] /mɑˈteɪ oʊ məˈri ə;; Italian mɑtˈtɛ ɔ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1434–94, Italian poet.
- bokhara — Bukhara.
- bolivar — the standard monetary unit of Venezuela, equal to 100 céntimos