8-letter words containing ro
- barometz — a type of Asian fern, Cibotium barometz, the woolly rhizoma of which is thought to resemble a lamb
- baronage — barons collectively
- baroness — A baroness is a woman who is a member of the lowest rank of the nobility, or who is the wife of a baron.
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.
- baronial — If you describe a house or room as baronial, you mean that it is large, impressive, and old-fashioned in appearance, and looks as if it belongs to someone from the upper classes.
- baronies — Plural form of barony.
- baronize — to make or create (someone) a baron; confer the rank of baron upon.
- baroques — (often initial capital letter) of or relating to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century and variously prevalent in Europe and the New World for a century and a half, characterized by free and sculptural use of the classical orders and ornament, by forms in elevation and plan suggesting movement, and by dramatic effect in which architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts often worked to combined effect.
- barosaur — a large herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck and tail, similar to the diplodocus
- barostat — a device for maintaining constant pressure, such as one used in an aircraft cabin
- barouche — a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, popular in the 19th century, having a retractable hood over the rear half, seats inside for two couples facing each other, and a driver's seat outside at the front
- barrooms — Plural form of barroom.
- bathrobe — A bathrobe is a loose piece of clothing made of the same material as towels. You wear it before or after you have a bath or a swim.
- bathroom — A bathroom is a room in a house that contains a bath or shower, a washbasin, and sometimes a toilet.
- baudrons — a cat
- bavarois — Bavarian cream.
- beadroll — a list of persons for whom prayers are to be offered
- bed-roll — bedding that rolls up for portability and is used especially for sleeping out-of-doors.
- bedrolls — Plural form of bedroll.
- bedrooms — Plural form of bedroom.
- bee road — an area planted with nectar-rich flowers in order to provide a habitat for bees and other pollinating insects
- beetroot — Beetroot is a dark red root that is eaten as a vegetable. It is often preserved in vinegar.
- belgorod — city in W European Russia, on the Donets River: pop. 318,000
- benbrook — a town in N Texas.
- berouged — wearing rouge
- beshroud — to cover with a shroud
- bestrode — to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
- betatron — a type of particle accelerator for producing high-energy beams of electrons, having an alternating magnetic field to keep the electrons in a circular orbit of fixed radius and accelerate them by magnetic induction. It produces energies of up to about 300 MeV
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- beyrouth — Beirut.
- bichrome — having two colours
- big iron — (jargon) (Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. The term implies approval, in contrast to "dinosaur".
- big road — a main road or highway.
- big room — (jargon, humour) The extremely large room with the blue ceiling and intensely bright light (during the day) or black ceiling with lots of tiny night-lights (during the night) found outside all computer installations. "He can't come to the phone right now, he's somewhere out in the Big Room."
- big-room — denoting a style of electronic music featuring regular beats and simple melodies, designed to be played in large venues
- biotroph — a parasitic organism, esp a fungus
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- blogroll — a list of blogs
- blowiron — blowpipe (def 2).
- blue rod — officer of the Order of St Michael and St George
- bog roll — a toilet roll; toilet paper
- boltrope — a rope sewn to the foot or luff of a sail to strengthen it
- borodino — a village in E central Russia, about 110 km (70 miles) west of Moscow: scene of a battle (1812) in which Napoleon defeated the Russians but irreparably weakened his army
- borrower — A borrower is a person or organization that borrows money.
- bow-iron — (on the car of a sidewalk elevator) a metal arch for parting the cellar doors as the elevator rises.
- bowfront — having a front that curves outwards
- box iron — a flatiron that is heated by inserting live coals or a piece of hot metal in its boxlike holder.
- box room — a storage room, especially one for trunks, suitcases, etc.
- bro talk — Māori English
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.