10-letter words containing k, o, r, b
- brake shoe — the curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
- brickworks — a factory or plant where bricks are made
- bridgework — a partial denture attached to the surrounding teeth
- brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
- 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.
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- brokenness — the quality of being broken
- brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- brook farm — an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847
- brook park — a city in NE Ohio.
- brookfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- chalkboard — A chalkboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Chalkboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
- chokeberry — any of various North American rosaceous shrubs of the genus Aronia
- cockleburr — Alternative form of cocklebur.
- cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- corkboards — Plural form of corkboard.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- coursebook — a book studied on an educational course
- 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.
- donnybrook — an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- dream book — a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- facebooker — A person using the social networking website Facebook.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- flat broke — having no money
- foot brake — a brake that is operated by pressure on a foot pedal, as in an automobile.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- go berserk — If someone or something goes berserk, they lose control of themselves and become very angry or violent.
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded
- green book — 1.
Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Red Book, and the White Book. 2. (publication) Informal name for one of the three standard references on SmallTalk. Also associated with blue and red books. 3. The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which defines an international standard Unix environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID. It also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See Purple Book. 4. The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards issued by the ITU-T's tenth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the dreadful X.400 electronic mail standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 6. Green Book CD-ROM. See also book titles. - hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- heartbroke — heartbroken
- housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housebroke — Simple past form of housebreak.