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10-letter words containing c, r

  • bioreactor — a machine for growing organisms
  • biospheric — relating to the biosphere
  • birch beer — a carbonated or fermented drink containing an extract from the bark of the birch tree.
  • bird-watch — to identify wild birds and observe their actions and habits in their natural habitat as a recreation.
  • birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
  • black bear — the common North American bear (Ursus americanus) that lives in forests and feeds mainly on roots and berries
  • black gram — a leguminous plant, Phaseolus mungo, whose seeds are used as food in India
  • black iris — a painting (1926) by Georgia O'Keeffe.
  • black mark — A black mark against someone is something bad that they have done or a bad quality that they have which affects the way people think about them.
  • black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
  • black ruff — a large, blackish, pelagic fish, Centrolophus niger, of the Atlantic Ocean, chiefly along the coast of Europe.
  • black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
  • black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
  • blackamoor — a Black African or other person with dark skin
  • blackbeard — nickname of (Edward) Teach
  • blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
  • blackboard — A blackboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Blackboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
  • blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
  • blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
  • blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
  • blackstrap — a kind of port wine
  • blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
  • blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
  • blockboard — a type of plywood in which soft wood strips are bonded together and sandwiched between two layers of veneer
  • blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
  • blue crane — the great blue heron.
  • blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
  • blue racer — a long slender blackish-blue fast-moving colubrid snake, Coluber constrictor flaviventris, of the US
  • blue-curls — any of a genus (Trichostema) of plants of the mint family, with downy, narrow leaves and blue flowers
  • blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
  • bnr pascal — ["Remote Rendezvous", N. Gammage et al, Soft Prac & Exp 17(10):741-755 (Oct 1987)].
  • boca raton — city in SE Fla., near Fort Lauderdale: pop. 75,000
  • boccherini — Luigi (luˈidʒi). 1743–1805, Italian composer and cellist
  • 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
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