10-letter words containing n, o, i, r
- boat train — A boat train is a train that takes you to or from a port.
- boccherini — Luigi (luˈidʒi). 1743–1805, Italian composer and cellist
- boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bonnetiere — a tall, narrow wardrobe of the 18th century, found especially in Normandy and Brittany.
- bookbinder — A bookbinder is a person whose job is fastening books together and putting covers on them.
- borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
- bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
- boring bar — Metalworking. a bar holding a tool for boring a cylinder or the like.
- boringness — the quality of being boring
- born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
- borrowings — a company's liabilities or indebtedness
- bosun bird — tropic bird.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- bourbonism — support for the rule of the Bourbons, the European royal line that ruled in France, Spain, and Naples and Sicily at various times in the late 16th to early 20th centuries
- bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- box spring — A box spring is a frame containing rows of coiled springs that is used to provide support for a mattress. You can also use box springs to refer to the springs themselves.
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- brian boru — ?941–1014, king of Ireland (1002–14): killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- bring down — When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.
- bring home — introduce to parents
- bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
- 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.
- broccolini — a cultivated variety of cabbage, Brassica B. oleracea, which resembles broccoli and is eaten as a green vegetable
- 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.
- broodiness — moody; gloomy.
- broodingly — preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
- brown rice — unpolished rice, in which the grains retain the outer yellowish-brown layer (bran)
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- brownprint — a process of photographic reproduction using a mixture of iron and silver salts to produce a white image on a sepia ground.
- brownshirt — Nazi stormtrooper
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- buonarroti — Michelangelo.
- burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- burst into — If you burst into tears, laughter, or song, you suddenly begin to cry, laugh, or sing.
- california — a state on the W coast of the US: the third largest state in area and the largest in population; consists of a narrow, warm coastal plain rising to the Coast Range, deserts in the south, the fertile central valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in the east; major industries include the growing of citrus fruits and grapes, fishing, oil production, electronics, information technology, and films. Capital: Sacramento. Pop: 35 484 453 (2003 est). Area: 411 015 sq km (158 693 sq miles)