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9-letter words containing a, b, r, m

  • boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
  • bookmaker — A bookmaker is a person whose job is to take your money when you bet and to pay you money if you win.
  • bookmarks — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
  • boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
  • bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
  • botmaster — (chat)   The owner of a bot.
  • box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
  • brainstem — the stalklike part of the brain consisting of the medulla oblongata, the midbrain, and the pons Varolii
  • brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
  • brakesman — a pithead winch operator
  • brambling — a Eurasian finch, Fringilla montifringilla, with a speckled head and back and, in the male, a reddish brown breast and darker wings and tail
  • bran mash — a food for horses made with bran and hot water, and sometimes including carrots, molasses, apples, etc
  • breadroom — a room or compartment where bread is kept, esp on a ship
  • breakroom — a room in a workplace that is set aside for employees to use during a break from work, as to relax, socialize, or eat.
  • breaktime — a period of rest or recreation, esp at school
  • bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
  • bridemaid — a bridesmaid
  • bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
  • broadbrim — a broad-brimmed hat, esp one worn by the Quakers in the 17th century
  • broadloom — of or designating carpets or carpeting woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams
  • broadmoor — an institution in Berkshire, England, for housing and treating mentally ill criminals
  • bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
  • bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
  • bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
  • bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
  • brominate — to treat or react with bromine
  • broodmare — mare for breeding
  • broomball — a sport similar to ice hockey, played without skates and with a specially designed broom
  • broomrape — any orobanchaceous plant of the genus Orobanche: brownish small-flowered leafless parasites on the roots of other plants, esp on legumes
  • brummagem — something that is cheap and flashy, esp imitation jewellery
  • brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface
  • brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
  • bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
  • bujumbura — the capital of Burundi, a port at the NE end of Lake Tanganyika. Pop: 419 000 (2005 est)
  • bullarium — a collection of papal bulls.
  • bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
  • byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
  • cablegram — a message sent by undersea cable
  • calembour — a pun
  • cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
  • cambiform — resembling a cambium
  • cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
  • camembert — Camembert is a type of cheese that comes from Northern France. It is soft and creamy with a white skin.
  • carambola — a tree, Averrhoa carambola, probably native to Brazil but cultivated in the tropics, esp SE Asia, for its edible fruit
  • carambole — to make a carom
  • carbamate — a salt or ester of carbamic acid. The salts contain the monovalent ion NH2COO–, and the esters contain the group NH2COO–
  • carbamide — urea.
  • carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
  • carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
  • carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
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