9-letter words containing b, a, r, l
- palm crab — coconut crab.
- palpebral — of or relating to the eyelids.
- par-sable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- para-bola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
- parablast — the nutritive yolk of a meroblastic ovum or egg.
- parabolic — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- parboiled — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- perceable — pierceable
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- permeable — capable of being permeated.
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- 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.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- preambled — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- prebattle — existing, occurring or carried out in the period before a battle
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- pregnable — capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
- pressable — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
- 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.
- preverbal — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- 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.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- pro-labor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- prolabour — favouring an organized labour movement
- pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
- pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- rail bead — a long, straight, cock bead.
- rain belt — a zone in which it usually rains
- ramble on — to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time.
- ramblings — If you describe a speech or piece of writing as someone's ramblings, you are saying that it is meaningless because the person who said or wrote it was very confused or insane.
- rattlebag — a rattle made out of a bag containing small objects
- rattlebox — any of various tropical and subtropical leguminous plants that have inflated pods within which the seeds rattle
- razorable — able to be shaved
- razorbill — a common auk, Alca torda, of the North Atlantic, having a thick laterally compressed bill with white markings
- reachable — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
- rebalance — to balance (something) again
- rebatable — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- recitable — to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner: to recite a lesson.
- red label — the phrase warning against fire hazards required by the Interstate Commerce Commission to be shown on the containers and shipping documents of inflammable materials while in transit.
- referable — to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.
- refinable — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.