12-letter words containing r, i, b
- boating trip — a trip or holiday in a boat such as a sailing boat or canal boat
- body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
- bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
- bog-iron ore — a deposit of impure limonite formed in low, wet areas.
- bognor regis — a resort in S England, in West Sussex on the English Channel: electronics industries. Regis was added to the name after King George V's convalescence there in 1929. Pop: 62 141 (2001)
- bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- boiler house — a building housing a boiler
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bois de rose — a grayish red or dark purplish red color.
- boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
- bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
- bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
- bonding wire — A bonding wire is a wire connecting two pieces of equipment, often for hazard prevention.
- boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
- book burning — the destruction of writings of which the subject, the view of the author, or the like is considered politically or socially objectionable: used as a means of censorship or oppression.
- bookcrossing — the practice of deliberately leaving books in places where they will be found and read by other people
- booking form — a form used to book a holiday, accommodation, etc
- boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- booze cruise — a day trip to a foreign country, esp from England across the English Channel to France, for the purposes of buying cheap alcohol, cigarettes, etc
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- bosom friend — an intimate friend
- bossier city — city in NW La., on the Red River opposite Shreveport: pop. 56,000
- botrytis rot — a disease of many plants caused by fungi of the genus Botrytis, characterized by leaf blight, a tan-gray moldlike surface growth, and the rotting of stems and storage organs.
- bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
- boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- bourgeoisify — to convert to a bourgeois attitude or appearance
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- bournonville — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1805–79, Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.
- bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- brachycranic — having a cranial index of 81.0–85.4.
- bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
- brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
- brain freeze — Also called ice-cream headache. a pain in the temples and forehead brought on by quickly consuming very cold food or drink.
- brain teaser — A brain teaser is a question, problem, or puzzle that is difficult to answer or solve, but is not serious or important.
- brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
- brain-picker — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
- brain-teaser — a puzzle or problem whose solution requires great ingenuity.
- brains trust — a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
- brake assist — a part of a vehicle's braking system that automatically boosts braking pressure in an emergency situation