11-letter words containing r, o, n
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- blue ribbon — A blue ribbon is the same as a blue riband.
- blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
- boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
- bogtrotting — the act of roaming over boggy areas, or living in boggy areas
- bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
- bolingbrook — a city in NE Illinois.
- bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
- bombing run — the part of a flight of a bomber aircraft that brings it to the point over a target at which its bombs are released
- bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
- bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
- bonaventura — Saint, called the Seraphic Doctor. 1221–74, Italian Franciscan monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher; author of a Life of St Francis and Journey of the Soul to God. Feast day: July 14
- bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
- bonbonniere — a small decorative box used to contain sweets
- bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
- bonderizing — to coat (steel) with an anticorrosive phosphate solution, usually in preparation for the application of paint, enamel, or lacquer.
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bone marrow — Bone marrow is the soft fatty substance inside human or animal bones.
- bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
- boomeranger — a young adult who returns to live with parents after a period of living away from home.
- boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- border line — boundary line; frontier.
- 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
- boss around — order about
- boss screen — a screen image within a computer game that can be activated instantly, designed to hide the evidence of game-playing, esp at work
- boston crab — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler seizes both or one of his opponent's legs, turns him face downwards, and exerts pressure over his back
- boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
- botheration — bother
- bottle fern — a fern, Cystopteris fragilis, of rocky, wooded areas throughout North America, having grayish-green fronds and brittle stalks.
- 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.
- bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
- 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
- bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
- bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
- boutonniere — a flower or flowers worn in a buttonhole, as of a lapel
- box cornice — a hollow cornice of boards and moldings nailed to rafters and lookouts.
- box spanner — a spanner consisting of a steel cylinder with a hexagonal end that fits over a nut: used esp to turn nuts in positions that are recessed or difficult of access
- boxing ring — A boxing ring is a raised square platform with ropes around it in which boxers fight.
- boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
- boysenberry — a type of bramble: a hybrid of the loganberry and various blackberries and raspberries
- brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- 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