9-letter words containing a, b, u, r, s
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cubatures — Plural form of cubature.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- disbursal — The act of disbursing money.
- drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
- drumbeats — Plural form of drumbeat.
- embrasure — (architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
- fabricius — Johan Christian [yoh-hahn kris-chuh n;; Danish yoh-hahn kris-tyahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tʃən;; Danish yoʊˈhɑn ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1743–1808, Danish entomologist.
- fabritius — Carel [kah-ruh l] /ˈkɑ rəl/ (Show IPA), 1622–54, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- grass bug — any of various hemipterous insects of the family Rhopalidae that feed chiefly on grasses and occasionally on certain trees, as the box elder.
- grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
- harquebus — any of several small-caliber long guns operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labourers — Plural form of labourer.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- labourous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- mossbauer — Rudolf L [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1929–2011, German physicist: Nobel prize 1961.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outboards — Plural form of outboard.
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- 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.
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- reusables — products that can be used more than once
- reuseable — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- rubensian — Peter Paul [pee-ter pawl;; Flemish pey-tuh r poul] /ˈpi tər pɔl;; Flemish ˈpeɪ tər paʊl/ (Show IPA), 1577–1640, Flemish painter.
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- sainsbury — David John, Baron. born 1940, British businessman and politician, chief executive of the Sainsbury supermarket chain (1992–98); science minister (1998–2006)
- salisbury — Harrison, 1908–93, U.S. journalist and writer.