9-letter words containing b, a, r, e
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- barthelme — Donald, 1931–89, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- base form — the simplest form of a word, to which inflections may be added
- base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
- base rate — In Britain, the base rate is the rate of interest that banks use as a basis when they are calculating the rates that they charge on loans.
- base year — a year used as an index for some phenomenon measured in other years
- 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.
- baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
- basketeer — Someone who makes baskets; a basketmaker.
- basrelief — Alternative form of bas-relief.
- bat-eared — (of a dog or other canid) having large, erect ears rounded at the top, resembling those of a bat.
- batardeau — A cofferdam.
- batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- bathwater — water in which a person bathes
- batterers — Plural form of batterer.
- batteries — a beating together of the calves or feet during a leap.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- battersea — a district in London, in Wandsworth: noted for its dogs' home, power station (now a leisure centre), and park
- baud rate — a rate of data transmission measured in baud
- bavardage — idle chattering
- bay shore — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- be warned — If someone says to you 'be warned', they are advising you to be cautious, because there are risks that you may not have thought about.
- beachgoer — a person who goes to the beach, esp frequently
- beachwear — Beachwear is the things people wear for swimming.
- bead tree — Barbados pride (def 1).
- bead-ruby — a N temperate liliaceous plant with small white bell-shaped flowers and small red berries
- beakerful — the amount of liquid a beaker will hold
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- bean tree — any of various trees having beanlike pods, such as the catalpa and carob
- beaneries — Plural form of beanery.
- bear arms — A person's right to bear arms is their right to own and use guns, as a means of defence.
- bear claw — a sweet, almond-flavored breakfast pastry made with yeast dough and shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw.
- bear down — If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.
- bear raid — an attempt to force down the price of a security or commodity by sustained selling
- bear trap — snare to catch bears
- bear with — If you ask someone to bear with you, you are asking them to be patient.
- bearberry — a trailing evergreen ericaceous shrub, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, with small pinkish-white flowers, red berries, and astringent leaves
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- beardless — without a beard
- beardsley — Aubrey (Vincent). 1872–98, English illustrator: noted for his stylized black-and-white illustrations, esp those for Oscar Wilde's Salome and Pope's Rape of the Lock
- beargrass — a North-West American plant, Xerophyllum tenax, belonging to the lily family but resembling tall grass
- bearishly — In a bearish manner.
- bearnaise — rich sauce made from egg yolks, lemon juice or wine vinegar, butter, shallots, herbs, and seasoning
- bearskins — Plural form of bearskin.
- beastlier — Comparative form of beastly.
- beatboxer — (music) A performer who imitates the sound of musical instruments, especially percussion, with his or her voice.
- beaumaris — a resort in N Wales, on the island of Anglesey: 13th-century castle. Pop: 1513 (2001)
- beaverton — a town in NW Oregon.
- beclamour — to clamour excessively