10-letter words containing s, o
- brake shoe — the curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake
- brassboard — in certain types of engineering, an experimental model at a more advanced stage of development than a breadboard (sense 2)
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- bravissimo — very well done! excellent!
- bread shop — a baker's shop
- breastbone — Your breastbone is the long, flat bone which goes from your throat to the bottom of your ribs and to which your ribs are attached.
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
- brickworks — a factory or plant where bricks are made
- brier rose — any of various thorny shrubs or other plants, such as the sweetbrier and greenbrier
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- broad seal — the official seal of a nation and its government
- broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
- broadlands — a Palladian mansion near Romsey in Hampshire: formerly the home of Lord Palmerston and Lord Mountbatten
- broadscale — on a broad scale; extensive; spread over a wide area
- broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
- broadsword — a broad-bladed sword used for cutting rather than stabbing
- brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
- brokenness — the quality of being broken
- brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- bromegrass — any of various grasses of the genus Bromus, having small flower spikes in loose drooping clusters. Some species are used for hay
- bromsgrove — a town in W central England, in N Worcestershire. Pop: 29 237 (2001)
- bronchitis — Bronchitis is an illness like a very bad cough, in which your bronchial tubes become sore and infected.
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- broodiness — moody; gloomy.
- broomstaff — a broomstick
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- brown eyes — eyes with brown irises
- brown nose — a form of light sensitization in cattle
- brown spot — a disease of many plants, characterized by irregular, brownish lesions on the fruit and foliage and by stem cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Ceratophorum setosum or Cephalosporium apii.
- brown-nose — to curry favor; behave obsequiously.
- brownnoser — a person who brownnoses
- brownshirt — Nazi stormtrooper
- brownstone — In the United States, a brownstone is a type of house which was built during the 19th century. Brownstones have a front that is made from a reddish-brown stone.
- bsp method — (programming) A CASE method from IBM.
- buffo bass — (in Italian opera of the 18th century) a bass singer who performs such a comic part
- buffoonish — resembling or in the manner of a buffoon
- bulbaceous — bulbous
- bull moose — a member of the Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912
- bull-nosed — having a rounded end
- bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
- bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling
- burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
- burst into — If you burst into tears, laughter, or song, you suddenly begin to cry, laugh, or sing.
- bush broom — an evergreen St.-John's-wort, Hypericum prolificum, common from New York to Iowa and southward, having yellow flowers in terminal clusters.
- bush house — a shed or hut in the bush or a garden
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- bush poppy — tree poppy.
- bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.