9-letter words containing b, e, s, t, r
- rust belt — the heavily industrial area of the northeastern U.S. containing the older industries and factories.
- saturable — capable of being saturated.
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- september — the ninth month of the year, containing 30 days. Abbreviation: Sept., Sep.
- sobriquet — a nickname.
- sodbuster — a farmer who works the soil.
- sorbitize — to turn metal into a form containing sorbite
- soubrette — a maidservant or lady's maid in a play, opera, or the like, especially one displaying coquetry, pertness, and a tendency to engage in intrigue.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- steenbras — a variety of sea bream, Lithognathos lithognathos, valued as a food fish in South Africa
- steinberg — Saul, 1914–1999, U.S. painter, cartoonist, and illustrator; born in Romania.
- sternberg — George Miller, 1838–1915, U.S. bacteriologist and medical researcher.
- sternebra — a bone or segment of the breastbone or sternum
- strasberg — Lee, 1901–82, U.S. theatrical director, teacher, and actor, born in Austria.
- streambed — the channel in which a stream flows or formerly flowed.
- streetboy — a boy living on the street
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- 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.
- subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subcenter — a secondary or subordinate center, as in the location of a business.
- subcentre — a secondary centre
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- subeditor — a subordinate or junior editor.
- subentire — (of parts of plants) slightly indented
- subletter — a person who sublets
- submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- submitter — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subsector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- substrate — a substratum.
- subtenure — the tenancy of a subtenant.
- subverted — to overthrow (something established or existing).
- subwriter — a person carrying out writing tasks for another writer
- superbity — pride
- superbrat — an exceptionally unpleasant or bratty person, someone who is very much a brat
- tabasheer — dried bamboo sap, used medicinally in the Far East
- 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
- tenebrous — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- test bore — a bore hole made to test the structure and content of the ground or soil
- tewksbury — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- the scrub — a remote place, esp one where contact with people can be avoided
- the-birds — a comedy (414 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
- throbless — pertaining to something that does not throb or pulsate or that lacks emotion
- thrombose — to become or affect with a thrombus
- tribesman — a member of a tribe.
- tribesmen — a member of a tribe.
- true ribs — ribs that are attached by cartilage directly to the sternum; in humans, the upper seven pairs of ribs
- trustable — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.