10-letter words containing p, r, o
- bookkeeper — A bookkeeper is a person whose job is to keep an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
- borah peak — a mountain in central Idaho, in the Lost River Range: highest peak in Idaho. 12,662 feet (3861 meters).
- 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.
- box spring — A box spring is a frame containing rows of coiled springs that is used to provide support for a mattress. You can also use box springs to refer to the springs themselves.
- box supper — a social gathering, as at a church, at which box lunches donated by women are auctioned off to raise funds
- brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- bread shop — a baker's shop
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- bridgeport — a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)
- brillo pad — a scouring pad made of wire wool filled with soap
- broad jump — an exercise and athletic contest in which competitors try to jump the farthest distance possible from a standing start from a fixed board or mark
- broad-jump — long-jump.
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- brook park — a city in NE Ohio.
- brown spot — a disease of many plants, characterized by irregular, brownish lesions on the fruit and foliage and by stem cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Ceratophorum setosum or Cephalosporium apii.
- brownprint — a process of photographic reproduction using a mixture of iron and silver salts to produce a white image on a sepia ground.
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- cacography — bad handwriting
- cacotrophy — malnutrition
- caecotroph — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
- caipiroska — a cocktail drink containing vodka, lime juice, sugar, and crushed ice, based on the Caipirinha cocktail but with vodka replacing the Brazilian rum-like spirit Cachaça
- camelopard — giraffe
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- can opener — A can opener is the same as a tin opener.
- can-opener — a manual device or small electric appliance for opening cans.
- canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
- capacitors — Plural form of capacitor.
- caparisons — Plural form of caparison.
- cape coral — city in SW Fla.: pop. 102,000
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- capreolate — possessing or resembling tendrils
- capriccios — Plural form of capriccio.
- capricious — Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly.
- caprioling — Present participle of capriole.
- capsomeres — Plural form of capsomere.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- captivator — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
- carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
- carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
- carpooling — Present participle of carpool.
- carpophore — the central column surrounded by carpels in such flowers as the geranium
- carpospore — a sexual spore produced by red algae after fertilization of the carpogonium