8-letter words containing o, r, i
- biotroph — a parasitic organism, esp a fungus
- biovular — (of twins) from two separate eggs
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- bird dog — a dog used or trained to retrieve game birds after they are shot
- bird-dog — to follow, watch carefully, or investigate.
- birdshot — small pellets designed for shooting birds
- birdsong — Birdsong is the sound of a bird or birds calling in a way which sounds musical.
- bisector — a straight line or plane that bisects an angle
- bistoury — a long surgical knife with a narrow blade
- blogring — a group of blogs joined in a ring
- blowiron — blowpipe (def 2).
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- bob wire — barbed wire.
- bobruisk — a port in Belarus, on the River Berezina: engineering, timber, tyre manufacturing. Pop: 219 000 (2005 est)
- boertjie — a person, esp a friend, often used as a term of address
- boilover — a surprising result in a sporting event, esp in a horse race
- boiserie — finely-sculptured wood panelling or wainscoating, particularly in 18th-century French architecture
- bonporti — Francesco Antonio. 1672–1749, Italian composer and violinist, noted esp for his Invenzioni (1712), a series of short instrumental suites
- borachio — a wine carrier made from animal skin, used in Spain
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- borazine — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
- borghild — (in the Volsunga Saga) the first wife of Sigmund: she poisons Sinfiotli in revenge for his killing of her brother.
- boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
- bornitic — of or relating to bornite
- borodino — a village in E central Russia, about 110 km (70 miles) west of Moscow: scene of a battle (1812) in which Napoleon defeated the Russians but irreparably weakened his army
- borrelia — a genus of helical spirochete bacteria, some causing relapsing fever
- bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
- botryoid — having the form of a bunch of grapes: botryoidal hematite.
- botrytis — any of a group of fungi of the genus Botrytis, several of which cause plant diseases
- bouderie — sulkiness, pouting
- bourride — a Mediterranean fish soup flavoured with aioli
- boursier — a foundation level scholar
- bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bow-iron — (on the car of a sidewalk elevator) a metal arch for parting the cellar doors as the elevator rises.
- bowrider — a motorboat with an open bow provided with seating.
- bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible
- box iron — a flatiron that is heated by inserting live coals or a piece of hot metal in its boxlike holder.
- boyarism — the rule of the boyars
- bozzaris — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), 1788?–1823, Greek patriot.
- brachio- — indicating a brachium
- braciola — (in Italian cooking) a thin slice of pan-fried beef
- braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
- braconid — any member of the Braconidae, a family of parasitoid wasps
- brainbow — the result of a process by which the individual neurons of a brain can be mapped with fluorescent proteins under a light source
- brainbox — the skull
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- brigalow — any of various acacia trees