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6-letter words containing o, r, b

  • boring — Someone or something boring is so dull and uninteresting that they make people tired and impatient.
  • borked — to attack (a candidate or public figure) systematically, especially in the media.
  • bormanFrank, born 1928, U.S. astronaut.
  • borneo — an island in the W Pacific, between the Sulu and Java Seas, part of the Malay Archipelago: divided into Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah, and the sultanate of Brunei; mountainous and densely forested. Area: about 750 000 sq km (290 000 sq miles)
  • borrel — ignorant or unlearned
  • borrow — If you borrow something that belongs to someone else, you take it or use it for a period of time, usually with their permission.
  • borsch — any of various eastern European soups made with beets, cabbage, potatoes, or other vegetables and served hot or chilled, often with sour cream.
  • borsic — a strong light composite material of boron fibre and silicon carbide used in aviation
  • borzoi — a tall graceful fast-moving breed of dog with a long silky coat, originally used in Russia for hunting wolves
  • bosker — excellent, good
  • bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
  • botwar — (chat)   The epic struggle of bots vying for dominance. Botwars are generally (and quite inappropriately) carried out on talk systems, typically IRC, where botwar crossfire (such as pingflooding) absorbs scarce server resources and obstructs human conversation. The wisdom of experience indicates that Core Wars, not talk systems, are the appropriate venue for aggressive bots and their botmasters. Compare penis war.
  • bourne — a brook or rivulet.
  • bourse — A country's or region's bourse is its stock exchange.
  • bovril — a concentrated beef extract, used for flavouring, as a stock, etc
  • bovver — rowdiness, esp caused by gangs of teenage youths
  • bowers — a musician, as a violinist, who performs with a bow on a stringed instrument.
  • bowery — a farm or plantation of an early Dutch settler of New York
  • bowler — The bowler in a sport such as cricket is the player who is bowling the ball.
  • bowser — a tanker containing fuel for aircraft, military vehicles, etc
  • bowyer — a person who makes or sells archery bows
  • boxcar — A boxcar is a railway carriage, often without windows, which is used to carry luggage, goods, or mail.
  • boyard — Russian History. a member of the old nobility of Russia, before Peter the Great made rank dependent on state service.
  • braino — thinko
  • brando — Marlon. 1924–2004, US actor; his films include On the Waterfront (1954) and The Godfather (1972), for both of which he won Oscars, Last Tango in Paris (1972), Apocalypse Now (1979), A Dry White Season (1989), and Don Juan de Marco (1995)
  • brasco — a lavatory
  • brasov — an industrial city in central Romania: formerly a centre for expatriate Germans; ceded by Hungary to Romania in 1920. Pop: 249 000 (2005 est)
  • brasso — Hungarian name of Braşov.
  • brazos — river in central & SE Tex., flowing southeastward into the Gulf of Mexico: 870 mi (1,400 km)
  • brecon — a town in SE Wales, in Powys: textile and leather industries. Pop: 7901 (2001)
  • brehon — a judge in ancient Ireland
  • breton — of, relating to, or characteristic of Brittany, its people, or their language
  • brillo — a compact pad of steel wool containing soap, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
  • briony — bryony
  • brisso — an abbreviation for Brisbane
  • briton — A Briton is a person who comes from Great Britain.
  • broach — When you broach a subject, especially a sensitive one, you mention it in order to start a discussion on it.
  • broads — a group of shallow navigable lakes, connected by a network of rivers, in E England, in Norfolk and Suffolk
  • broche — woven with a raised design, as brocade
  • brodie — a suicidal or daredevil leap; wild dive: to do a brodie from a high ledge.
  • brogan — a heavy laced usually ankle-high work boot
  • brogue — If someone has a brogue, they speak English with a strong accent, especially Irish or Scots.
  • broken — Broken is the past participle of break.
  • broker — A broker is a person whose job is to buy and sell shares, foreign money, or goods for other people.
  • broket — (character)   /broh'k*t/ or /broh'ket/ (From broken bracket) Either of the characters "<" or ">" when used as paired enclosing delimiters (angle brackets).
  • brolga — a large grey Australian crane, Grus rubicunda, having a red-and-green head and a trumpeting call
  • brolly — A brolly is the same as an umbrella.
  • bromal — a yellowish oily synthetic liquid formerly used medicinally as a sedative and hypnotic; tribromoacetaldehyde. Formula: Br3CCHO
  • bromic — of or containing bromine in the trivalent or pentavalent state
  • bromo- — indicating the presence of bromine
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