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10-letter words containing or

  • blood work — a blood test or blood tests collectively.
  • blue coral — any coral of the genus Heliopora, having brown polyps and a blue skeleton, found in the Indo-Pacific region.
  • body armor — Body armor is special protective clothing that people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • body forth — to give shape or form to
  • bodyworker — a person involved in the building or repair of bodywork
  • bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore
  • bog orchid — an orchid, Hammarbya (or Malaxis) paludosa, growing in sphagnum bogs in the N hemisphere. It has greenish-yellow flowers and its leaves bear a fringe of tiny bulbils
  • borah peak — a mountain in central Idaho, in the Lost River Range: highest peak in Idaho. 12,662 feet (3861 meters).
  • borax bead — a bead of fused borax, used in chemical analysis for the identification of certain metal oxides.
  • borborygmi — a rumbling or gurgling sound caused by the movement of gas in the intestines.
  • bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
  • border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
  • bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
  • borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.
  • borderless — without a band or margin around or along the edge
  • borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
  • bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
  • borer bomb — a device that emits pesticide fumes
  • borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
  • boric acid — a white soluble weakly acid crystalline solid used in the manufacture of heat-resistant glass and porcelain enamels, as a fireproofing material, and as a mild antiseptic. Formula: H3BO3
  • boring bar — Metalworking. a bar holding a tool for boring a cylinder or the like.
  • boringness — the quality of being boring
  • boris bike — any bicycle rented out by London's public bicycle hire scheme
  • born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
  • 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.
  • bound form — a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def 2).
  • brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
  • brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
  • breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
  • brian boru — ?941–1014, king of Ireland (1002–14): killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf
  • brickworks — a factory or plant where bricks are made
  • bridgeport — a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)
  • bridgework — a partial denture attached to the surrounding teeth
  • brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
  • broadsword — a broad-bladed sword used for cutting rather than stabbing
  • buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
  • budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
  • buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
  • bunt order — a dominance hierarchy seen in herds of cattle, established and maintained by bunting.
  • butterwort — a plant of the genus Pinguicula, esp P. vulgaris, that grows in wet places and has violet-blue spurred flowers and fleshy greasy glandular leaves on which insects are trapped and digested: family Lentibulariaceae
  • by george! — a figure of St. George killing the dragon, especially one forming part of the insignia of the Order of the Garter.
  • cacciatora — A style of cooking in which meat is cooked in a sauce containing mushrooms, shallots, tomatoes, white wine and herbs; chasseur.
  • cacciatore — prepared with tomatoes, mushrooms, herbs, and other seasonings
  • caddisworm — the aquatic larva of a caddis fly, which constructs a protective case around itself made of silk, sand, stones, etc
  • cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
  • calceiform — shaped like a shoe or slipper
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