9-letter words containing b, a, u, r
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outboards — Plural form of outboard.
- outbraved — Simple past tense and past participle of outbrave.
- outbrazen — to be more brazen or impudent than
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outer bar — a body of the junior counsel who sit and plead outside the dividing bar in the court, ranking below the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel.
- pakanbaru — a city on central Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- 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.
- pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.
- pea shrub — any of various small trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Caragana, of the legume family, native to central Asia, having showy, usually yellow flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- 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).
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- 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.
- quebracho — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Schinopsis, having very hard wood, especially S. lorentzii, the wood and bark of which are important in tanning and dyeing.
- rabirubia — yellowtail (def 2).
- raceabout — a small, sloop-rigged racing yacht with a short bowsprit.
- raw umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- refutable — to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
- regulable — that can be regulated; controllable.
- reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- reputably — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- reusables — products that can be used more than once
- reuseable — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- rib vault — a vault supported by or decorated with diagonal ribs.
- ribattuta — a musical trill with a jerky rhythm
- rituximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- roundball — basketball
- rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rub-a-dub — the sound of a drum when beaten.
- rubensian — Peter Paul [pee-ter pawl;; Flemish pey-tuh r poul] /ˈpi tər pɔl;; Flemish ˈpeɪ tər paʊl/ (Show IPA), 1577–1640, Flemish painter.
- rubricate — to mark or color with red.
- rubrician — an expert in or close adherent to liturgical rubrics.
- rudbeckia — any composite plant of the genus Rudbeckia, having alternate leaves and showy flower heads.
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- sainsbury — David John, Baron. born 1940, British businessman and politician, chief executive of the Sainsbury supermarket chain (1992–98); science minister (1998–2006)
- salisbury — Harrison, 1908–93, U.S. journalist and writer.
- salubrity — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- san bruno — a city in W California, S of San Francisco.
- saturable — capable of being saturated.