7-letter words containing t, r, o
- barthou — (Jean) Louis [zhahn lwee] /ʒɑ̃ lwi/ (Show IPA), 1862–1934, French statesman and author.
- bartoli — Cecilia. born 1966, Italian mezzo-soprano, noted for her performances in Mozart and Rossini operas
- baryton — a bass viol with sympathetic strings as well as its six main strings
- bastrop — a city in N Louisiana.
- battero — a heavy club
- belfort — a fortress town in E France: strategically situated in the Belfort Gap between the Vosges and the Jura mountains. Pop: 50 417 (1999)
- besport — to amuse (oneself)
- bestorm — to assault
- bestrow — bestrew.
- bethorn — to cover with thorns
- betroth — to promise to marry or to give in marriage
- bifrost — the rainbow bridge of the gods from their realm Asgard to earth
- bigotry — Bigotry is the possession or expression of strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions.
- bimotor — an airplane or other vehicle that has two engines.
- biotron — a climate-control chamber used to examine how living organisms respond to specific climatic conditions
- bistort — a Eurasian polygonaceous plant, Polygonum bistorta, having leaf stipules fused to form a tube around the stem and a spike of small pink flowers
- bit rot — (jargon) A hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed, even if "nothing has changed". The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive. As time passes, the contents of a file or the code in a program will become increasingly garbled. People with a physics background tend to prefer the variant "bit decay" for the analogy with particle decay. There actually are physical processes that produce such effects (alpha particles generated by trace radionuclides in ceramic chip packages, for example, can change the contents of a computer memory unpredictably, and various kinds of subtle media failures can corrupt files in mass storage), but they are quite rare (and computers are built with error detection circuitry to compensate for them). The notion long favoured among hackers that cosmic rays are among the causes of such events turns out to be a myth. Bit rot is the notional cause of software rot. See also computron, quantum bogodynamics.
- blawort — the plant Campanula rotundifolia
- bleriot — Louis (lwi). 1872–1936, French aviator and aeronautical engineer: made the first flight across the English Channel (1909)
- bloater — a herring, or sometimes a mackerel, that has been salted in brine, smoked, and cured
- blokart — a single-seat three-wheeled vehicle with a sail, built to be propelled over land by the wind
- blotter — A blotter is a large sheet of blotting paper kept in a special holder on a desk.
- bo tree — the sacred fig tree ( peepul) of Buddhism: Gautama is believed to have received heavenly inspiration under such a tree
- boaster — a chisel for boasting stone.
- boggart — a ghost or poltergeist
- bolster — If you bolster something such as someone's confidence or courage, you increase it.
- booster — A booster is something that increases a positive or desirable quality.
- bootery — a shop selling boots and shoes
- bornite — a mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron that tarnishes to purple or dark red. It occurs in copper deposits. Formula: Cu5FeS4
- borotra — Jean (Robert) (ʒɑ̃). 1898–1994, French tennis player: secretary general of physical education under the Vichy government (1940)
- borscht — a Russian and Polish soup based on beetroot
- borstal — In Britain in the past, a borstal was a kind of prison for young criminals, who were not old enough to be sent to ordinary prisons.
- bostryx — a type of cymose inflorescence normally affecting all flowers on one side of the rachis
- botargo — a relish consisting of the roe of mullet or tunny, salted and pressed into rolls
- botcher — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- bottger — Johann Friedrich [yoh-hahn free-drikh] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1682–1719, German chemist.
- bottler — A bottler is a person or company that puts drinks into bottles.
- bottrop — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Ruhr. Pop: 120 324 (2003 est)
- boulter — a long, stout fishing line with several hooks attached.
- bourget — a suburb of Paris: former airport, landing site for Charles A. Lindbergh, May 1927.
- bra top — an item of women's clothing that looks like a bra but is worn as outerwear
- bradsot — braxy (def 1).
- brenton — Howard. born 1942, British dramatist, author of such controversial plays as The Churchill Play (1974), The Romans in Britain (1980), (with David Hare) Pravda (1985), and several topical satires with Tariq Ali
- brinton — Daniel Garrison, 1837–99, U.S. physician, archaeologist, and anthropologist.
- brissot — Jacques-Pierre (ʒakpjɛr). 1754–93, French journalist and revolutionary; leader of the Girondists: executed by the Jacobins
- bristol — seaport in Avon, SW England: county district pop. 376,000
- bristow — Eric. born 1957, British darts player: world champion five times (1980–81, 1984–86)
- britcom — a comedy, especially a television series, made in the United Kingdom.
- britpop — Britpop is a type of pop music made by British bands. It was especially popular in the mid-1990s.
- britton — Nathaniel Lord, 1859–1934, U.S. botanist.