6-letter words containing r, o
- bogart — to monopolize or keep (something, esp a marijuana cigarette) to oneself selfishly
- bogger — a lavatory
- boiler — A boiler is a device which burns gas, oil, electricity, or coal in order to provide hot water, especially for the central heating in a building.
- bolder — not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring: a bold hero.
- bolero — A bolero is a very short jacket, sometimes without sleeves. Boleros are worn mainly by women.
- bolger — James. born 1935, New Zealand politician; prime minister (1990–97)
- bolter — an outsider in a contest or race
- bomarc — a winged, surface-to-air interceptor missile.
- bomber — A bomber is a military aircraft which drops bombs.
- bonder — a long stone or brick laid in a wall as a header
- bonzer — excellent; very good
- booger — A booger is a piece of dried mucus that comes from inside your nose.
- booker — a person who hires performers or performance companies
- boomer — a large male kangaroo
- booner — a young working-class person from Canberra
- boozer — A boozer is a pub.
- bopper — a musician who specializes in bop.
- borage — a European boraginaceous plant, Borago officinalis, with star-shaped blue flowers. The young leaves have a cucumber-like flavour and are sometimes used in salads or as seasoning
- borane — any compound of boron and hydrogen, used in the synthesis of other boron compounds and as high-energy fuels
- borate — a salt or ester of boric acid. Salts of boric acid consist of BO3 and BO4 units linked together
- bordar — a smallholder of low social rank who held a cottage in return for menial work
- bordel — a bordello
- borden — ˈLizzie (Andrew) (ˈlɪzi ) ; lizˈē) 1860-1927; U.S. woman accused and acquitted in a sensational trial (1893) of murdering her father & stepmother (1892)
- border — The border between two countries or regions is the dividing line between them. Sometimes the border also refers to the land close to this line.
- bordet — Jules (Jean Baptiste Vincent) (ʒyl). 1870–1961, Belgian bacteriologist and immunologist, who discovered complement. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1919
- boreal — of or relating to the north or the north wind
- boreas — the god personifying the north wind
- boreen — a country lane or narrow road
- borger — a city in N Texas.
- borges — Jorge Luis (ˈxorxe lwis). 1899–1986, Argentinian poet, short-story writer, and literary scholar. The short stories collected in Ficciones (1944) he described as "games with infinity"
- borgia — Cesare (ˈtʃezare), son of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI). 1475–1507, Italian cardinal, politician, and military leader; model for Machiavelli's The Prince
- boride — a compound in which boron is the most electronegative element, esp a compound of boron and a metal
- 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.
- borman — Frank, 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