9-letter words containing b, a, e, r
- hibernate — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- hibernian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ireland or its inhabitants; Irish.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- honorable — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- hybernate — Obsolete spelling of hibernate.
- hyderabad — a state in SE India, formed from portions of Chennai and Hyderabad states 1956. 105,963 sq. mi. (274,444 sq. km). Capital: Hyderabad.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- iceboater — a person who races iceboats, especially as a hobby or in competition.
- ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- illiberal — narrowminded; bigoted.
- imbracery — embracery.
- imbrangle — embrangle.
- imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
- inbreathe — to breathe in; inhale.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- indurable — Archaic form of endurable.
- inebriant — an intoxicant.
- inebriate — to make drunk; intoxicate.
- inerrable — Incapable of error; infallible.
- inferable — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- inferably — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- inhabiter — inhabitant.
- inner bar — a body of the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel who sit and plead inside the dividing bar in the court, ranking above the junior counsel.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- interbank — Agreed, arranged, or operating between banks.
- interbase — A commercial active DBMS.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irratable — Misspelling of irritable.
- irrigable — capable of being irrigated.
- irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- jabbering — rapid, indistinct, or nonsensical talk; gibberish.
- jailbreak — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- jamborees — Plural form of jamboree.
- jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
- jarlsberg — a hard mild-tasting yellow-coloured cheese with holes in it
- jeroboams — Plural form of jeroboam.
- jerubbaal — Gideon (def 1).
- jib crane — a crane having an arm guyed at a fixed angle to the head of a rotating mast.
- job share — If two people job share, they share the same job by working part-time, for example one person working in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.
- job-share — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- jobstears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- karabiner — a D -shaped ring with a spring catch on one side, used for fastening ropes in mountaineering.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.