9-letter words containing a, t, b, r
- exprobate — (obsolete) To exprobrate.
- extrabold — a font with very bold characters
- exuberant — Filled with or characterized by a lively energy and excitement.
- exuberate — (obsolete) To abound; to be in great abundance.
- fabricant — a maker or manufacturer.
- fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- fabritius — Carel [kah-ruh l] /ˈkɑ rəl/ (Show IPA), 1622–54, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- fabulator — a person who fabulates, a story-teller
- faribault — a city in SE Minnesota.
- farm belt — an area or region noted principally for farming.
- ferryboat — a boat used to transport passengers, vehicles, etc., across a river or the like.
- filtrable — filterable.
- fimbriate — Also, fimbriated. Botany, Zoology. having a border of hairs or filiform processes.
- fireblast — A fiery explosion.
- firebrats — Plural form of firebrat.
- flatbread — Also, flatbrod [flat-brohd] /ˈflæt broʊd/ (Show IPA). a thin, waferlike bread, usually rye, baked especially in Scandinavian countries.
- flirtable — ready or willing to flirt.
- footboard — a board or small platform on which to support the foot or feet.
- footbrake — a brake operated by applying pressure to a foot pedal
- fractable — a coping concealing the slopes of the roof, especially one having an ornamental silhouette.
- fretboard — a fingerboard with frets, as on a guitar.
- fruit bat — any fruit-eating bat, especially of the suborder Megachiroptera, of tropical regions throughout the Old World, typically having erect, catlike ears and large eyes adapted for night vision, and either tailless or with a rudimentary tail, the numerous species ranging in wingspan from 10 inches to 5 feet (25 cm to 1.5 meters).
- galbraith — John Kenneth, 1908–2006, U.S. economist, born in Canada.
- gastrobot — a robot that is able to supply itself with sugar, which it uses as a source of fuel
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- gibraltar — a British crown colony comprising a fortress and seaport located on a narrow promontory near the S tip of Spain. 1.875 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- grantable — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- hard boot — (operating system) A boot which resets the entire system. The phrase has connations of hostility toward, or frustration with, the computer being booted. For example, "I'll have to hard boot this losing Sun", or "I recommend booting it hard". Hard boots are often performed with a power cycle. Contrast soft boot. See also cold boot and reboot
- heartbeat — a pulsation of the heart, including one complete systole and diastole.
- heartburn — an uneasy burning sensation in the stomach, typically extending toward the esophagus, and sometimes associated with the eructation of an acid fluid.
- heathbird — the black grouse
- herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
- hereabout — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- heritable — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- heritably — In a heritable manner.
- hibernate — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- hybernate — Obsolete spelling of hibernate.
- iceboater — a person who races iceboats, especially as a hobby or in competition.
- imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
- inbreathe — to breathe in; inhale.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- inebriant — an intoxicant.
- inebriate — to make drunk; intoxicate.
- inhabiter — inhabitant.
- inhabitor — One who inhabits.
- interbank — Agreed, arranged, or operating between banks.
- interbase — A commercial active DBMS.
- intraband — (physics) Describing a property within a band (magnetic, spectral etc).