9-letter words containing a, r, b, o, s
- barachois — (in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) a shallow lagoon formed by a sand bar
- barbarous — If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- barnstorm — When people such as politicians or performers barnstorm, they travel around the country making speeches or giving shows.
- baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
- barotitis — inflammation of the ear caused by a change in air pressure
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
- barrators — a person who commits barratry.
- base form — the simplest form of a word, to which inflections may be added
- baseboard — A baseboard is a narrow length of wood which goes along the bottom of a wall in a room and makes a border between the walls and the floor.
- bass horn — an obsolete wind instrument of low range
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- bathrooms — Plural form of bathroom.
- bay shore — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- behaviors — manner of behaving or acting.
- beriosova — Svetlana (svɪtˈlanə). 1932–98, British ballet dancer, born in Lithuania
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
- bombaster — a person who stuffs or pads
- bookmarks — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
- bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- bosberaad — a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- botmaster — (chat) The owner of a bot.
- bourasque — a tempest
- broachers — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
- broadness — the state or character of being broad: the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
- broadside — A broadside is a strong written or spoken attack on a person or institution.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- browsable — able to be browsed
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- cornballs — Plural form of cornball.
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- crossable — able to be crossed
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crossbars — Plural form of crossbar.
- crossbeam — A crossbeam is a long, thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete that is placed between two walls or other structures, especially in order to support the roof of a building.
- crosstabs — Simple language for statistical analysis of tabular data. "User's Manual for the CROSSTABS System", Cambridge Computer Assoc (Feb 1977).