7-letter words containing ro
- barrows — Plural form of barrow.
- bastrop — a city in N Louisiana.
- battero — a heavy club
- becrowd — to crowd greatly with something
- bedrock — The bedrock of something is the principles, ideas, or facts on which it is based.
- bedroll — A bedroll is a rolled-up sleeping bag or other form of bedding, which you can carry with you.
- bedroom — A bedroom is a room used for sleeping in.
- begroan — to groan at or about
- beprose — to reduce to prose
- berobed — wearing a robe
- bestrow — bestrew.
- betroth — to promise to marry or to give in marriage
- bifrost — the rainbow bridge of the gods from their realm Asgard to earth
- biotron — a climate-control chamber used to examine how living organisms respond to specific climatic conditions
- 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.
- bizarro — bizarre
- borodin — Aleksandr Porfirevich (alɪkˈsandr pərfiˈrjevitʃ). 1834–87, Russian composer, whose works include the unfinished opera Prince Igor, symphonies, songs, and chamber music
- boronia — any aromatic rutaceous shrub of the Australian genus Boronia
- boronic — of or relating to boron
- borotra — Jean (Robert) (ʒɑ̃). 1898–1994, French tennis player: secretary general of physical education under the Vichy government (1940)
- borough — A borough is a town, or a district within a large town, which has its own council.
- bottrop — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Ruhr. Pop: 120 324 (2003 est)
- boxroom — a small room or large cupboard in which boxes, cases, etc, may be stored
- bracero — a Mexican labourer working in the USA, esp one admitted into the country to relieve labour shortages during and immediately after World War II
- brasero — a large metal tray for holding burning coals
- broad a — of or relating to a type of pronunciation transcription in which symbols correspond approximately to phonemes without taking account of allophonic variations
- broadax — an ax with a broad blade, used as a weapon or for hewing timber
- broaden — When something broadens, it becomes wider.
- broader — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- broadly — You can use broadly to indicate that something is generally true.
- broadus — something given as a bonus; lagniappe.
- brocade — Brocade is a thick, expensive material, often made of silk, with a raised pattern on it.
- brocard — an elementary legal principle, often expressed in Latin
- brochan — a type of thin porridge
- broches — (in weaving tapestries) a device on which the filling yarn is wound, used as a shuttle in passing through the shed of the loom to deposit the yarn.
- brocked — having different colours; variegated
- brocken — a mountain in central Germany: the highest peak of the Harz Mountains; important in German folklore. Height: 1142 m (3747 ft). The Brocken Bow or Brocken Spectre is an atmospheric phenomenon in which an observer, when the sun is low, may see his enlarged shadow against the clouds, often surrounded by coloured lights
- brocket — any small deer of the genus Mazama, of tropical America, having small unbranched antlers
- broddle — to poke or pierce (something)
- brodsky — Joseph, original name Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky. 1940–96, US poet, born in the Soviet Union. His collections include The End of a Beautiful Era (1977). Nobel prize for literature 1987
- brogans — a heavy, sturdy shoe, especially an ankle-high work shoe.
- broglie — Achille Charles Léonce Victor Duc de Broglie1785-1870; Fr. statesman under Napoleon I & Louis Philippe
- broider — to embroider
- broiler — A broiler is a part of a stove which produces strong heat and cooks food placed underneath it.
- brokage — brokerage.
- brokery — the business of a broker
- brokest — a simple past tense of break.
- broking — acting as a broker
- bromate — any salt or ester of bromic acid, containing the monovalent group -BrO3 or ion BrO3–
- bromide — Bromide is a drug which used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset.