9-letter words containing b, r, e, t
- sobriquet — a nickname.
- sodbuster — a farmer who works the soil.
- sorbitize — to turn metal into a form containing sorbite
- soubrette — a maidservant or lady's maid in a play, opera, or the like, especially one displaying coquetry, pertness, and a tendency to engage in intrigue.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- steenbras — a variety of sea bream, Lithognathos lithognathos, valued as a food fish in South Africa
- steinberg — Saul, 1914–1999, U.S. painter, cartoonist, and illustrator; born in Romania.
- sternberg — George Miller, 1838–1915, U.S. bacteriologist and medical researcher.
- sternebra — a bone or segment of the breastbone or sternum
- strasberg — Lee, 1901–82, U.S. theatrical director, teacher, and actor, born in Austria.
- streambed — the channel in which a stream flows or formerly flowed.
- streetboy — a boy living on the street
- strikable — being cause for a strike, as by union members: strikable labor issues.
- strokable — appearing pleasant to stroke
- sub-tribe — any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions, adherence to the same leaders, etc.
- subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subcenter — a secondary or subordinate center, as in the location of a business.
- subcentre — a secondary centre
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- subeditor — a subordinate or junior editor.
- subentire — (of parts of plants) slightly indented
- subletter — a person who sublets
- submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- submitter — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subsector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- substrate — a substratum.
- subtenure — the tenancy of a subtenant.
- subverted — to overthrow (something established or existing).
- subwriter — a person carrying out writing tasks for another writer
- superbity — pride
- superbrat — an exceptionally unpleasant or bratty person, someone who is very much a brat
- tabasheer — dried bamboo sap, used medicinally in the Far East
- tablature — Music. any of various systems of music notation using letters, numbers, or other signs to indicate the strings, frets, keys, etc., to be played.
- tableware — the dishes, utensils, etc., used at the table.
- tambourer — someone who embroiders on a tambour
- tax break — If the government gives a tax break to a particular group of people or type of organization, it reduces the amount of tax they have to pay or changes the tax system in a way that benefits them.
- tea break — an intermission from work, usually in the middle of the morning or afternoon, for a cup of tea, a snack, etc.
- tea-berry — the spicy red fruit of the American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
- teabagger — Slang. a person who tea-bags a sexual partner.
- tear bomb — a bomb or grenade containing tear gas.
- 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
- tenebrous — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- tenurable — related to an academic post carrying tenure
- ter borch — Gerard [kh-ey-rahrt] /xˈeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1617–81, Dutch painter.
- terebinth — a Mediterranean tree, Pistacia terebinthus, of the cashew family, yielding Chian turpentine.
- terebrant — a hymenopterous insect that bores holes for depositing eggs
- terebrate — (of animals, esp insects) having a boring or penetrating organ, such as a sting
- test bore — a bore hole made to test the structure and content of the ground or soil