9-letter words containing b, r, e, t
- miter box — any of various fixed or adjustable guides for a saw in making miters or cross cuts, especially a troughlike box open at the ends and guiding the saw by slots in the opposite sides.
- mitre box — an open-ended box with sides having narrow slots to guide a saw in cutting mitre joints
- motorable — Which can be traveled on by motor cars.
- motorbike — a small, lightweight motorcycle.
- mud berth — a mooring place in which a vessel rests on the bottom at low tide.
- nailbiter — the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- netballer — (netball) A netball player.
- nightrobe — A robe to be worn at night; a nightgown.
- noble rot — the fungus Botrytis cinerea, which is cultivated in some winemaking processes, especially in the making of French Sauternes, where the ripened grapes become shriveled as a result of its introduction, thereby concentrating the juice and increasing the sugar content.
- nutbutter — a food substance for spreading that is made from nuts
- obcordate — heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end, as a leaf.
- objectors — Plural form of objector.
- objectory — (programming) An object-oriented methodology mostly created by Ivar Jacobson.
- objurgate — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- obreption — Canon Law. fraud in obtaining or attempting to obtain something from an official. Compare subreption (def 1).
- obscurest — Superlative form of obscure.
- obsecrate — to entreat solemnly; beseech; supplicate.
- observant — quick to notice or perceive; alert.
- obstetric — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- obstruent — Medicine/Medical. (of a substance) producing an obstruction.
- obtrusive — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- obumbrate — to darken, overshadow, or cloud.
- otterbein — Philip William, 1726–1813, American clergyman, founder of the United Brethren, born in Germany.
- otterburn — a village in central Northumberland, in NE England: battle of Chevy Chase 1388.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outbidder — a person who outbids
- outbraved — Simple past tense and past participle of outbrave.
- outbrazen — to be more brazen or impudent than
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outer bar — a body of the junior counsel who sit and plead outside the dividing bar in the court, ranking below the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel.
- outnumber — to exceed in number.
- overbuilt — Simple past tense and past participle of overbuild.
- perborate — a salt of perboric acid, as sodium perborate, NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used for bleaching, disinfecting, etc.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- perturbed — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- perturber — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- portobelo — a small port in Panama, on the Caribbean northeast of Colón: the most important port in South America in colonial times; declined with the opening of the Panama Canal. Pop: 3300 (1997)
- potboiler — a mediocre work of literature or art produced merely for financial gain.
- powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- prebattle — existing, occurring or carried out in the period before a battle
- prebiotic — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- prebudget — produced, occurring or implemented prior to the release of the government's Budget
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- predebate — occurring or produced before a given debate; of or pertaining to the period leading up to a given debate
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- presbyter — (in the early Christian church) an office bearer who exercised teaching, priestly, and administrative functions.
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- pretibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.