10-letter words containing w, r
- barrenwort — a herbaceous European berberidaceous plant, Epimedium alpinum, having red-and-yellow star-shaped flowers
- barrow boy — A barrow boy is a man or boy who sells fruit or other goods from a barrow in the street.
- barrow pit — a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.
- barrow-boy — a man or boy who sells wares from a barrow; costermonger.
- basaltware — hard fine-grained black stoneware, made in Europe, esp in England, in the late 18th century
- basketwork — work that is interlaced or woven like a basket; wickerwork
- bath water — Your bath water is the water in which you sit or lie when you have a bath.
- bay wreath — (In Greek and Roman times) a wreath of laurel leaves, worn by a victor
- beam trawl — a trawl net whose lateral spread during trawling is maintained by a beam across its mouth.
- bear's-paw — a clam of the genus Hippopus, having a ridged, white shell with purplish-red spots.
- beard worm — pogonophoran.
- bedwarmers — Plural form of bedwarmer.
- beflowered — adorned or decorated with flowers.
- beggarweed — any of various leguminous plants of the genus Desmodium, esp D. purpureum of the Caribbean, grown in the southern US as forage plants and to improve the soil
- bell tower — a tower containing a bell or bells; belfry
- bellflower — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 73,000
- bellwether — If you describe something as a bellwether, you mean that it is an indication of the way a situation is changing.
- bench work — work done at a workbench, worktable, etc., as in a factory or laboratory.
- beweltered — soaked with blood
- bewildered — If you are bewildered, you are very confused and cannot understand something or decide what you should do.
- bewitchery — a bewitching power; charm
- biowarfare — biological warfare.
- bird-watch — to identify wild birds and observe their actions and habits in their natural habitat as a recreation.
- birtwistle — Sir Harrison. born 1934, English composer, whose works include the operas Punch and Judy (1967), The Mask of Orpheus (1984), Gawain (1991), Exody (1998), and The Minotaur (2008)
- bitterweed — any of various plants that contain a bitter-tasting substance
- bitterwood — any of several simaroubaceous trees of the genus Picrasma of S and SE Asia and the Caribbean, whose bitter bark and wood are used in medicine as a substitute for quassia
- bitterwort — yellow gentian.
- blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
- blind-worm — a limbless European lizard, Anguis fragilis, related to the glass lizards.
- blood work — a blood test or blood tests collectively.
- blow dryer — a handheld hair dryer
- blow-dried — dried using hairdryer
- blow-dryer — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance that dries hair by emitting a stream of warm air.
- blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
- boatwright — a craftsman who builds wooden boats.
- bodyworker — a person involved in the building or repair of bodywork
- bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
- boldrewood — Rolf, real name Thomas Alexander Browne. 1826–1915, Australian writer, born in the UK, noted for his novels of the Australian outback, esp Robbery Under Arms (1882–3)
- bookviewer — A hypertext documentation system from Oracle based on Oracle Toolkit. It allows the user to create private links and bookmarks, and to make multimedia annotations.
- borrow pit — an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
- borrow-pit — a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
- borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
- borrowings — a company's liabilities or indebtedness
- boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
- bow rudder — (in canoeing) a technique in which a paddler in the bow holds the paddle at an angle from the side of the bow, using it as a rudder to steer.
- bow street — a street in London, England: location of a metropolitan police court.
- bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
- bowerwoman — a chamber-woman