9-letter words containing b, r, e, t
- tewksbury — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- the birch — a bundle of birch twigs or a birch rod used, esp formerly, for flogging offenders
- the bronx — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- the derby — an annual horse race run at Epsom Downs, Surrey, since 1780: one of the English flat-racing classics
- the scrub — a remote place, esp one where contact with people can be avoided
- the-birds — a comedy (414 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
- throbless — pertaining to something that does not throb or pulsate or that lacks emotion
- thrombose — to become or affect with a thrombus
- tie-break — a system for breaking a tie score at the end of regulation play by establishing a winner through special additional play, usually of a fairly short duration, as in tennis and soccer.
- timbering — the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses.
- timberman — a person who prepares, erects, and maintains mine timbers.
- tinbergen — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1903–94, Dutch economist: Nobel prize 1969.
- tinderbox — a box for holding tinder, usually fitted with a flint and steel.
- tolerable — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- tolerably — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- tonbridge — a market town in SE England, in SW Kent on the River Medway. Pop: 35 833 (2001)
- torbanite — Petrology. a dark-brown oil shale containing a large amount of carbonaceous matter.
- torchable — able to be torched or set alight
- trabeated — constructed with a beam or on the principle of a beam, as an entablature or flat ceiling.
- trabecula — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- traceable — capable of being traced.
- trackable — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- tractable — easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.
- tradeable — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trailable — capable of being trailed.
- trainable — capable of being trained.
- treatable — able to be treated, especially medically: Some diseases are treatable but not curable.
- trebbiano — a type of grape and vine cultivated in Italy for making wine (by the same name)
- trebizond — a medieval empire in NE Asia Minor 1204–1461.
- treblinka — a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw.
- trebuchet — a medieval engine of war with a sling for hurling missiles.
- tremblant — (of jewels) set in such a way that they shake when the wearer moves
- trembling — to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.
- tribesman — a member of a tribe.
- tribesmen — a member of a tribe.
- tribulate — to trouble or oppress
- tribunate — the office of tribune.
- trilobate — having three lobes.
- trilobite — any marine arthropod of the extinct class Trilobita, from the Paleozoic Era, having a flattened, oval body varying in length from 1 inch (2.5 cm) or less to 2 feet (61 cm).
- truckable — (of a barge, tug, etc) capable or suitable for being conveyed in or on a truck
- true bill — a bill of indictment endorsed by a grand jury as being sufficiently supported by evidence to justify a hearing of the case.
- true ribs — ribs that are attached by cartilage directly to the sternum; in humans, the upper seven pairs of ribs
- true-blue — unwaveringly loyal or faithful; staunch; unchangingly true.
- true-born — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- trustable — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- tube worm — any of various marine worms that produce and inhabit a tube, some being adapted to a hydrothermal vent environment.
- tubercled — having or affected by tubercles
- tubercula — a tubercle.
- turbidite — a sedimentary deposit laid down by a turbidity current.
- turbinate — Also, turbinated. having the shape of an inverted cone; scroll-like; whorled; spiraled.