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10-letter words containing b, t, r

  • boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
  • bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
  • bone earth — bone ash.
  • bonesetter — a person who sets broken or dislocated bones, esp one who has no formal medical qualifications
  • bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
  • bonnetiere — a tall, narrow wardrobe of the 18th century, found especially in Normandy and Brittany.
  • booby-trap — A booby-trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched.
  • boosterish — designed to boost business; optimistic
  • boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
  • boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
  • bootlegger — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bootloader — a bootstrap loader
  • border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
  • borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
  • borrow pit — an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
  • borrow-pit — a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
  • bothersome — Someone or something that is bothersome is annoying or irritating.
  • botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
  • bottletree — any of a genus (Brachychiton) of trees of the sterculia family, native to Australia, some of which have a swollen, bottle-shaped trunk
  • bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
  • bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
  • bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
  • bow street — a street in London, England: location of a metropolitan police court.
  • bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
  • box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
  • box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
  • box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
  • brace root — prop root.
  • brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
  • bracketing — a set of brackets
  • bradstreet — Anne (Dudley). ?1612–72, US poet, born in England: regarded as the first significant US poet
  • bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
  • braggartly — in a braggart or boastful manner
  • brain fart — (jargon, humour)   1. The actual result of a braino, as opposed to the mental glitch that is the braino itself. E.g. typing "dir" on a Unix box after a session with MS-DOS. 2. A biproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly. A burst of useful information. "I know you're busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?"
  • brain stem — the portion of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord and comprises the medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain, and parts of the hypothalamus, functioning in the control of reflexes and such essential internal mechanisms as respiration and heartbeat.
  • brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
  • branch cut — a method for selecting a single-valued function on a subset of the domain of a multiple-valued function of a complex variable.
  • branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
  • branchiate — having gills.
  • bratislava — the capital of Slovakia since 1918, a port on the River Danube; capital of Hungary (1541–1784) and seat of the Hungarian parliament until 1848. Pop: 428 672 (2001)
  • bratticing — a partition or lining, as of planks or cloth, forming an air passage in a mine.
  • brattiness — the quality of being bratty
  • brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
  • brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
  • brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
  • breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
  • breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
  • breadstuff — any form of bread
  • break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
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