9-letter words containing a, b, r, e
- paperback — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- paperbark — cajeput.
- par-sable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- parabrake — parachute brake.
- parboiled — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.
- passer-by — a person passing by.
- passersby — a person passing by.
- pea shrub — any of various small trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Caragana, of the legume family, native to central Asia, having showy, usually yellow flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- pea-brain — a foolish or unintelligent person
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- perborate — a salt of perboric acid, as sodium perborate, NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used for bleaching, disinfecting, etc.
- perceable — pierceable
- perfboard — hardboard with perforations into which pegs or hooks can be inserted for hanging or displaying objects.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
- permabear — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will fall
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- permeable — capable of being permeated.
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- pinballer — a person who plays pinball machines, especially regularly or habitually.
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- preabsorb — to absorb beforehand or in advance
- preambled — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- prebattle — existing, occurring or carried out in the period before a battle
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- predebate — occurring or produced before a given debate; of or pertaining to the period leading up to a given debate
- prefabbed — prefabricated.
- pregnable — capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- pressable — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
- pretibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- preverbal — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
- priceable — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- quebracho — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Schinopsis, having very hard wood, especially S. lorentzii, the wood and bark of which are important in tanning and dyeing.
- rabatment — the act of rotating a plane to align it with another
- rabbeting — a deep notch formed in or near one edge of a board, framing timber, etc., so that something else can be fitted into it or so that a door or the like can be closed against it.
- rabbinate — the office or term of office of a rabbi.
- rabbinite — a proponent of the Talmud and the teachings and traditions of the rabbis in the face of rejection by the Karaites.
- rabidness — The property of being rabid.
- raceabout — a small, sloop-rigged racing yacht with a short bowsprit.
- rail bead — a long, straight, cock bead.
- rain belt — a zone in which it usually rains