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9-letter words containing b, i, r, t

  • tambourin — a long narrow drum of Provence.
  • 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.
  • thon buri — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
  • thornbill — any of various South American hummingbirds of the genera Chalcostigma, Ramphomicron, etc, having a thornlike bill
  • thornbird — any of various small S American birds of the genus Phacellodomus
  • throbbing — to beat with increased force or rapidity, as the heart under the influence of emotion or excitement; palpitate.
  • tick bird — any of various birds that feed on ticks, as an oxpecker.
  • tick-bird — any of various birds that feed on ticks, as an oxpecker.
  • 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.
  • trainband — a company of trained militia organized in London and elsewhere in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
  • 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.
  • tribadism — lesbianism.
  • tribalism — the customs and beliefs of tribal life and society.
  • tribesman — a member of a tribe.
  • tribesmen — a member of a tribe.
  • tribology — the study of the effects of friction on moving machine parts and of methods, as lubrication, of obviating them.
  • tribulate — to trouble or oppress
  • tribunate — the office of tribune.
  • tributary — a stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water.
  • trihybrid — a hybrid that differs from its parents in three genetic traits
  • 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).
  • troubling — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
  • 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
  • tub chair — an easy chair having a semicircular back and, with the wings or arms, forming a single upholstered piece.
  • tubicolar — living in a self-constructed tube
  • turbidite — a sedimentary deposit laid down by a turbidity current.
  • turbidity — not clear or transparent because of stirred-up sediment or the like; clouded; opaque; obscured: the turbid waters near the waterfall.
  • 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
  • underbite — occlusion in which the lower incisor teeth overlap the upper.
  • untirable — not able to be fatigued or tired out
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