9-letter words containing b, r, a, s
- herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- interbase — A commercial active DBMS.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- isallobar — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal pressure changes.
- jailbirds — Plural form of jailbird.
- jamborees — Plural form of jamboree.
- jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
- jarlsberg — a hard mild-tasting yellow-coloured cheese with holes in it
- jeroboams — Plural form of jeroboam.
- job share — If two people job share, they share the same job by working part-time, for example one person working in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.
- job-share — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- jobstears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- laborists — Plural form of laborist.
- laborites — Plural form of laborite.
- laborsome — Alternative form of laboursome.
- labourers — Plural form of labourer.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- labourous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- ladybirds — Plural form of ladybird.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- last-born — last in order of birth; youngest.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- leeboards — Plural form of leeboard.
- lensboard — the usually removable front panel of a view camera or enlarger on which the lens is mounted.
- liberates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liberate.
- libraries — Plural form of library.
- low brass — an alloy of about 80 percent copper and 20 percent zinc, with traces of lead and iron.
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marimbist — A player of the marimba.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- membranes — Plural form of membrane.
- microbars — Plural form of microbar.
- midbrains — Plural form of midbrain.
- millibars — Plural form of millibar.
- mirabilis — (botany) Any of the plant genus Mirabilis; a four-o'clock.