9-letter words containing b, a, i, r
- minibraai — (South Africa, rare, nonce) A small (miniature) barbecue; A barbecue for two people.
- minibreak — A brief pause for relaxation.
- mirabelle — a dry, white plum brandy from Alsace.
- mirabilia — wonders
- mirabilis — (botany) Any of the plant genus Mirabilis; a four-o'clock.
- miserable — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- miserably — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- mozarabic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Mozarabs: Mozarabic culture.
- muliebral — womanly nature or qualities.
- nailbiter — the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- ninebarks — Plural form of ninebark.
- nobiliary — of or relating to the nobility.
- nonbinary — not consisting of, indicating, or involving two.
- nontribal — not related to, originating from, or involving a tribe or tribes
- obligator — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- orbituary — Orbital.
- pair bond — the exclusive relationship formed between a male and a female, esp in some species of animals and birds during courtship and breeding
- pair-bond — (of a mating couple) to form and maintain a pair bond.
- panic bar — a bar that spans an emergency exit door on its interior and opens the latch when pressure is applied.
- parabasis — (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode addressed to the audience, especially of comedy, and independent of the action of the play: usually following the agon and, in the earliest forms of comedy, serving often to end the play.
- parabolic — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- paranaiba — a river in W Minas Gerais, S central Brazil, flowing W and joining the Rio Grande to form the Paraná River. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- parboiled — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.
- pea-brain — a foolish or unintelligent person
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
- piano bar — a cocktail lounge featuring live piano music.
- pillarbox — a technique for displaying a video recorded in portrait orientation on a wider screen by reducing its size but retaining the aspect ratio, with black bands filling the screen to the right and left of the picture (often used attributively): pillarbox format. Compare letterbox (def 2).
- pinballer — a person who plays pinball machines, especially regularly or habitually.
- pinch bar — a kind of crowbar or lever with a projection that serves as a fulcrum.
- pinky bar — a chocolate-covered marshmallow bar
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- pretibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
- priceable — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- print bar — a mechanism in a printer that has the template of characters to be printed.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- probation — the act of testing.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- procambia — plant part in stem and root
- rabbeting — a deep notch formed in or near one edge of a board, framing timber, etc., so that something else can be fitted into it or so that a door or the like can be closed against it.
- rabbinate — the office or term of office of a rabbi.
- rabbinics — the Hebrew language as used by rabbis in post-Biblical times.
- rabbinism — the beliefs, practices, and precepts of the rabbis of the Talmudic period.
- rabbinite — a proponent of the Talmud and the teachings and traditions of the rabbis in the face of rejection by the Karaites.