11-letter words containing o, b, r, i
- bonbonniere — a small decorative box used to contain sweets
- bonderizing — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
- booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
- book review — a description and analysis of a new book
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- border line — boundary line; frontier.
- border raid — an incursion by attackers into a neighbouring country
- bored stiff — very bored
- boric oxide — a colorless crystalline compound, B 2 O 3 , used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.
- boring clam — piddock
- boring mill — a large vertical lathe having a rotating table on which work is secured. Tools are held on a fixed post and the work is rotated around it
- borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
- botheration — bother
- boudin noir — a dark-colored boiled sausage made with pork and blood, and often highly spiced
- boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
- bouquetiere — an assortment of fresh vegetables
- bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
- bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
- bourgeoning — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
- bourguignon — a sauce made with red wine, onions, and seasoning
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- boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
- bow divider — a bow compass, each leg of which terminates in a needle, used to transfer measurements from one area of a drawing to another.
- box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
- boxing ring — A boxing ring is a raised square platform with ropes around it in which boxers fight.
- brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
- brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
- braggadocio — vain empty boasting
- brain coral — a stony coral of the genus Meandrina, in which the polyps lie in troughlike thecae resembling the convoluted surface of a human brain
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- bravo-river — Mexican Rio Bravo. a river flowing from SW Colorado through central New Mexico and along the boundary between Texas and Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
- break in on — to intrude on
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- brecciation — the fragmentation of rock
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- bride-to-be — A bride-to-be is a woman who is soon going to be married.
- bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bridge roll — a soft bread roll in a long thin shape
- bridgeboard — a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- bright wool — the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.
- bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.