9-letter words containing a, n, b, r
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carbonize — to turn or be turned into carbon as a result of heating, fossilization, chemical treatment, etc
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- carborane — any of the crystalline compounds obtained by the substitution of carbon for boron in borane.
- carbuncle — A carbuncle is a large swelling under the skin.
- carbunkle — Misspelling of carbuncle.
- caribbean — The Caribbean is the sea which is between the West Indies, Central America and the north coast of South America.
- cediranib — A potent inhibitor of VEGF receptor tyrosine kinases, under development as a possible anticancer drug.
- celebrant — A celebrant is a person who performs or takes part in a religious ceremony.
- charabanc — A charabanc is a large old-fashioned coach with several rows of seats. Charabancs were used especially for taking people on trips or on holiday.
- claiborne — a male given name.
- conchobar — (in Irish legend) a king of Ulster at about the beginning of the Christian era
- conybeare — William Daniel. 1787–1857, British geologist. He summarized all that was known about rocks at the time in Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
- cornballs — Plural form of cornball.
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
- cranberry — Cranberries are red berries with a sour taste. They are often used to make a sauce or jelly that you eat with meat.
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- cybrarian — a person responsible for archives and information available on the internet
- danburite — a rare mineral, calcium borosilicate, CaB 2 Si 2 O 8 , occurring in pegmatite in yellow or colorless crystals resembling topaz.
- dannebrog — the Danish flag
- debarking — Present participle of debark.
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- debarring — Present participle of debar.
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- dna probe — a technique for identifying a segment of DNA, using a known sequence of nucleotide bases from a DNA strand to detect a complementary sequence in the sample by means of base pairing.
- doorbrand — a hinge having a long strap holding together the planks of a door.
- drabbling — Present participle of drabble.
- drag bunt — an in-motion bunt for a base hit usually attempted by a left-handed batter, who starts for first base while trailing the bat to meet the ball, without squaring around, in order to catch the infield by surprise. Compare sacrifice (def 6).
- drainable — Capable of being drained.
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- dunbarton — former county of W Scotland
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- earthborn — born on or sprung from the earth; of earthly origin.
- embarking — Present participle of embark.
- embracing — Present participle of embrace.
- embrangle — To embroil.