9-letter words containing b, r, i, c
- excalibur — (in Arthurian legend) the magic sword of King Arthur
- fabricant — a maker or manufacturer.
- fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- fabricius — Johan Christian [yoh-hahn kris-chuh n;; Danish yoh-hahn kris-tyahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tʃən;; Danish yoʊˈhɑn ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1743–1808, Danish entomologist.
- febricity — the state of being feverish.
- febricula — a slight and short fever, especially when of obscure causation.
- fibrocyte — an inactive fibroblast
- firebacks — Plural form of fireback.
- firebrick — a brick made of fire clay.
- fitchburg — a city in N Massachusetts.
- fluoboric — containing the univalent group BF 4 − .
- forecabin — the forward cabin on a vessel
- goldbrick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- herbicide — a substance or preparation for killing plants, especially weeds.
- high-carb — having a high carbohydrate content
- hubristic — excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
- hybristic — hubris.
- hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
- iceboater — a person who races iceboats, especially as a hobby or in competition.
- imbracery — embracery.
- imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- innsbruck — an alpine region in W Austria and N Italy: a former Austrian crown land.
- inscribed — to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
- inscriber — to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
- inscribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inscribe.
- interclub — a heavy stick, usually thicker at one end than at the other, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
- intraclub — Within a club.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- jib crane — a crane having an arm guyed at a fixed angle to the head of a rotating mast.
- kickboard — a buoyant, usually small board that is used to support the arms of a swimmer, used chiefly in practicing kicking movements.
- kickboxer — someone who practises kickboxing
- king crab — horseshoe crab.
- lockerbie — a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- macbinary — (file format) An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
- macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- maracaibo — a seaport in NW Venezuela.
- microbars — Plural form of microbar.
- microbeam — (physics) A beam having a small cross section.