9-letter words containing a, t, b, r
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- brass hat — a top-ranking official, esp a military officer
- brat pack — A brat pack is a group of young people, especially actors or writers, who are popular or successful at the moment.
- bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
- brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
- breadroot — a leguminous plant, Psoralea esculenta, of central North America, having an edible starchy root
- break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
- breakbeat — a type of electronic dance music
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.
- breaktime — a period of rest or recreation, esp at school
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- breathful — full of breath; living
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- brecciate — to form into breccia
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- briarroot — the hard woody root of the briar, used for making tobacco pipes
- brilliant — A brilliant person, idea, or performance is extremely clever or skilful.
- britannia — a female warrior carrying a trident and wearing a helmet, personifying Great Britain or the British Empire
- britannic — of Britain; British (esp in the phrases His or Her Britannic Majesty)
- broach to — to turn or swing so that the beam faces the waves and wind and there is danger of swamping or capsizing
- broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
- broadtail — the highly valued black wavy fur obtained from the skins of newly born karakul lambs; caracul
- 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.
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
- brown fat — tissue composed of a type of fat cell that dissipates as heat most of the energy released when food is oxidized; brown adipose tissue. It is present in hibernating animals and human babies and is thought to be important in adult weight control
- brown rat — a common brownish rat, Rattus norvegicus: a serious pest in all parts of the world
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- bucentaur — the state barge of Venice from which the doge and other officials dropped a ring into the sea on Ascension Day to symbolize the ceremonial marriage of the state with the Adriatic
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- burn rate — The burn rate of a startup company is a measure of how fast it uses up its capital before becoming profitable.
- bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- butlerage — a butler's position or rank
- butterfat — the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made, consisting of a mixture of glycerides, mainly butyrin, olein, and palmitin
- buttstrap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- by nature — essentially or innately
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- c battery — the power source for biasing the control-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
- calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.