12-letter words that end in r
- black liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the liquor that remains after digestion.
- black pepper — Black pepper is pepper which is dark in colour and has been made from the dried berries of the pepper plant, including their black outer cases.
- black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
- black poplar — a Eurasian tree, Populus nigra
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- black scoter — a scoter of Eurasia and North America, Melanitta nigra, the adult male of which is black.
- black sucker — a hog sucker, Hypentelium nigricans, of eastern U.S. streams.
- blaue reiter — der Blaue Reiter. a group of German expressionist painters formed in Munich in 1911, including Kandinsky and Klee, who sought to express the spiritual side of man and nature, which they felt had been neglected by impressionism
- blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
- blind corner — a corner where the view of the road ahead is completely obscured or very restricted
- blind roller — a long ocean swell that rises almost to breaking as it passes over shoals.
- block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
- block letter — a plain capital letter
- blood sister — a sister by birth
- bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
- blue norther — a cold north wind that brings rapidly falling temperatures.
- blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
- blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
- blues guitar — blues guitar music
- board member — a member of board of directors
- body bolster — the lower transverse member of a car body to which the body center plate is attached.
- body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
- bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
- bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- bonus number — (in the National Lottery) a number announced after the normal six numbers which influences the amount of prize money paid
- boot-scraper — a contraption consisting of an upright metal shape formerly placed outside some houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots before going in
- bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
- bottomfeeder — (networking) An RSS aggregator.
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
- bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
- brain teaser — A brain teaser is a question, problem, or puzzle that is difficult to answer or solve, but is not serious or important.
- brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
- brain-picker — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
- brain-teaser — a puzzle or problem whose solution requires great ingenuity.
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- branch water — water from a stream, as opposed to mineral or soda water
- brand leader — The brand leader of a particular product is the brand of it that most people choose to buy.
- brass-collar — unwaveringly faithful to a political party; voting the straight ticket: a brass-collar Democrat.
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- breakweather — any makeshift shelter.
- breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
- breathalyser — a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath: used in testing people suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol
- breathalyzer — A Breathalyzer is a bag or electronic device that the police use to test whether a driver has drunk too much alcohol.
- breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
- breuer chair — a chair with a frame of continuous chrome tubing, no back legs, and cane seat and back
- brick veneer — (in Australia) a timber-framed house with a brick exterior