9-letter words containing b, o, r, n, u
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- inebrious — (archaic) intoxicated; drunk.
- iron blue — any of the class of blue pigments having a high tinting strength and ranging in shade and in coloring properties from reddish blue to jet blue: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and printing inks.
- ironbound — bound with iron.
- jumbotron — A very large video screen, typically used in a stadium or concert venue to show close-up shots.
- labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
- lounsbury — Thomas Raynesford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1838–1915, U.S. linguist and educator.
- lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
- melbourne — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- moundbird — megapode.
- neighbour — a person who lives near another.
- non-urban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- nonlabour — not relating to or concerned with work
- nonrubber — not containing or made of rubber
- numberous — Obsolete form of numerous.
- nut-brown — Nut-brown is used to describe things that are dark reddish brown in colour.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscuring — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obstruent — Medicine/Medical. (of a substance) producing an obstruction.
- obtruding — Present participle of obtrude.
- obtrusion — the act of obtruding.
- obumbrant — overhanging; projecting over another part.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- otterburn — a village in central Northumberland, in NE England: battle of Chevy Chase 1388.
- outbrazen — to be more brazen or impudent than
- outnumber — to exceed in number.
- overbound — Simple past tense and past participle of overbind.
- prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
- rebounder — a player who excels in gaining hold of rebounds.
- ring buoy — a ring-shaped life preserver.
- rockbound — surrounded or covered by rocks
- rootbound — (of a pot plant) having outgrown its pot, so that the roots are cramped and tangled
- rope burn — a burn on the skin caused by friction from a rope
- 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.
- rumble on — If you say that something such as an argument rumbles on, you mean that it continues for a long time after it should have been settled.
- san bruno — a city in W California, S of San Francisco.
- scrubdown — an act or instance of scrubbing, especially a thorough washing of a surface or object: The decks of the ship get a scrubdown every morning.
- slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
- snowbrush — a brush for clearing snow (from a car, path, etc)
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- tambourin — a long narrow drum of Provence.
- tenebrous — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- thon buri — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thornbush — any of various shrubs or bushes having spines or thorns.
- troubling — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.