9-letter words containing b, o, u, r
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- buzz word — a word, often originating in a particular jargon, that becomes a vogue word in the community as a whole or among a particular group
- byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- calembour — a pun
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- cherbourg — a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)
- club root — a disease of plants of the cabbage family, caused by a slime mold (Plasmodiophora brassicae) and characterized by swellings of the roots
- clubrooms — Plural form of clubroom.
- cocklebur — any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium, having spiny burs: family Asteraceae (composites)
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- colubrine — of or resembling a snake
- columbary — a dovecote
- combretum — any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Combretum, native mainly to tropical and subtropical Africa and producing attractive flowers
- combustor — the combustion system of a jet engine or ramjet, comprising the combustion chamber, the fuel injection apparatus, and the igniter
- corbicula — pollen basket.
- corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- courbaril — a tropical American leguminous tree, Hymenaea courbaril. Its wood is a useful timber and its gum is a source of copal
- courbette — A movement in dressage in which the horse makes a series of jumps on the hind legs with the forelegs in the air.
- cropbound — (of poultry) having a congested crop
- crossbuck — (in the US) a white cross-shaped road sign used at railway crossings
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- cube root — The cube root of a number is another number that makes the first number when it is multiplied by itself twice. For example, the cube root of 8 is 2.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- curb roof — a roof having two or more slopes on each side of the ridge
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- currycomb — a square comb consisting of rows of small teeth, used for grooming horses
- cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
- door-buck — a sawhorse.
- doukhobor — a member of an independent religious sect originating in Russia in the 18th century, believing in the supreme authority of the inner voice and in the transmigration of souls, rejecting the divinity of Christ and the establishing of churches, and expressing opposition to civil authority by refusing to pay taxes, do military service, etc.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- dubersome — (archaic) Doubtful.
- dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- duikerbok — duiker.
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- dumb dora — a foolishly simple, stupid, or scatterbrained woman.
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- dunbarton — former county of W Scotland
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- eurobeach — a beach that has been designated as suitable for bathing from because it meets the limits set by European Union regulations for bacteria in bathing areas
- fabulator — a person who fabulates, a story-teller
- fibrinous — the insoluble protein end product of blood coagulation, formed from fibrinogen by the action of thrombin in the presence of calcium ions.
- fibrously — In a fibrous manner.
- flour bin — a small container for flour
- fluoboric — containing the univalent group BF 4 − .
- foulbrood — any of several bacterial diseases of honeybee larvae, characterized by the putrefying of body tissues.