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12-letter words containing r, o, b, s

  • boiler house — a building housing a boiler
  • 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.
  • bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • bonus number — (in the National Lottery) a number announced after the normal six numbers which influences the amount of prize money paid
  • bookcrossing — the practice of deliberately leaving books in places where they will be found and read by other people
  • boom-or-bust — boom-and-bust.
  • boomer state — Oklahoma
  • booster dose — a supplementary injection of a vaccine given to maintain the immunization provided by an earlier dose
  • booster pump — A booster pump is a pump which is used where pressure is low and needs to be increased.
  • booster seat — A booster seat or a booster cushion is a special seat which allows a small child to sit in a higher position, for example at a table or in a car.
  • booster shot — an injection of a vaccine or other antigen some time after the initial series of injections, for maintaining immunity
  • boot-scraper — a contraption consisting of an upright metal shape formerly placed outside some houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots before going in
  • 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 state — a state adjacent to a border
  • border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
  • 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.
  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
  • bourbon rose — a hybrid rose, Rosa borboniana, having dark, carmine-colored flowers, cultivated in many horticultural varieties.
  • bourgeoisify — to convert to a bourgeois attitude or appearance
  • bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
  • bovver boots — heavy boots worn by some teenage youths in Britain, used in gang fights
  • bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
  • box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
  • boxer shorts — Boxer shorts are loose-fitting men's underpants that are shaped like the shorts worn by boxers.
  • brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
  • braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • brass-collar — unwaveringly faithful to a political party; voting the straight ticket: a brass-collar Democrat.
  • brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breaststroke — Breaststroke is a swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, moving your arms and legs horizontally in a circular motion.
  • bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
  • brisbane box — a broad-leaved evergreen tree, Tristania conferta, native to Australia, having a deciduous outer bark.
  • brise-soleil — a structure used in hot climates to protect a window from the sun, usually consisting of horizontal or vertical strips of wood, concrete, etc
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • broca's area — the region of the cerebral cortex of the brain concerned with speech; the speech centre
  • bromhidrosis — the secretion of foul-smelling sweat.
  • bronchoscope — an instrument for examining and providing access to the interior of the bronchial tubes
  • bronchoscopy — an examination by means of a bronchoscope.
  • bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
  • broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
  • brontosaurus — any very large herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus, common in North America during Jurassic times, having a long neck and long tail: suborder Sauropoda (sauropods)
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