9-letter words containing b, e, r, i
- sub-tribe — any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions, adherence to the same leaders, etc.
- subaerial — located or occurring on the surface of the earth.
- subeditor — a subordinate or junior editor.
- subentire — (of parts of plants) slightly indented
- sublinear — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
- submarine — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- submitter — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- subperiod — a subdivision of a time period
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- subscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- subseries — a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
- subsoiler — one who operates a subsoil plow.
- subursine — resembling a bear to some degree
- subwriter — a person carrying out writing tasks for another writer
- superbike — a high-performance motorcycle
- superbity — pride
- swinburne — Algernon Charles, 1837–1909, English poet and critic.
- tenebrism — a school, style, or method of painting, adopted chiefly by 17th-century Spanish and Neapolitan painters, esp Caravaggio, characterized by large areas of dark colours, usually relieved with a shaft of light
- tenebrity — the state of being dark
- terebinth — a Mediterranean tree, Pistacia terebinthus, of the cashew family, yielding Chian turpentine.
- the birch — a bundle of birch twigs or a birch rod used, esp formerly, for flogging offenders
- the-birds — a comedy (414 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
- tie-break — a system for breaking a tie score at the end of regulation play by establishing a winner through special additional play, usually of a fairly short duration, as in tennis and soccer.
- timbering — the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses.
- timberman — a person who prepares, erects, and maintains mine timbers.
- tinbergen — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1903–94, Dutch economist: Nobel prize 1969.
- tinderbox — a box for holding tinder, usually fitted with a flint and steel.
- tonbridge — a market town in SE England, in SW Kent on the River Medway. Pop: 35 833 (2001)
- torbanite — Petrology. a dark-brown oil shale containing a large amount of carbonaceous matter.
- trailable — capable of being trailed.
- trainable — capable of being trained.
- trebbiano — a type of grape and vine cultivated in Italy for making wine (by the same name)
- trebizond — a medieval empire in NE Asia Minor 1204–1461.
- treblinka — a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.
- trembling — to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.
- tribesman — a member of a tribe.
- tribesmen — a member of a tribe.
- tribulate — to trouble or oppress
- tribunate — the office of tribune.
- trilobate — having three lobes.
- trilobite — any marine arthropod of the extinct class Trilobita, from the Paleozoic Era, having a flattened, oval body varying in length from 1 inch (2.5 cm) or less to 2 feet (61 cm).
- true bill — a bill of indictment endorsed by a grand jury as being sufficiently supported by evidence to justify a hearing of the case.
- true ribs — ribs that are attached by cartilage directly to the sternum; in humans, the upper seven pairs of ribs
- turbidite — a sedimentary deposit laid down by a turbidity current.
- turbinate — Also, turbinated. having the shape of an inverted cone; scroll-like; whorled; spiraled.
- twinberry — the partridgeberry, Mitchella repens.
- umberto i — (Umberto I) 1844–1900, king of Italy 1878–1900.
- umbratile — shadowy; shady
- unacerbic — (of a taste) not sharp or bitter
- unbearing — the manner in which one conducts or carries oneself, including posture and gestures: a man of dignified bearing.