9-letter words containing b, r, n
- riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
- robertson — Oscar Palmer ("The Big O") born 1938, U.S. basketball player.
- rock band — heavy pop music group
- rockbound — surrounded or covered by rocks
- rootbound — (of a pot plant) having outgrown its pot, so that the roots are cramped and tangled
- rope burn — a burn on the skin caused by friction from a rope
- rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
- roundball — basketball
- rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rub it in — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rubbering — Also called India rubber, natural rubber, gum, gum elastic, caoutchouc. a highly elastic solid substance, light cream or dark amber in color, polymerized by the drying and coagulation of the latex or milky juice of rubber trees and plants, especially Hevea and Ficus species.
- rubensian — Peter Paul [pee-ter pawl;; Flemish pey-tuh r poul] /ˈpi tər pɔl;; Flemish ˈpeɪ tər paʊl/ (Show IPA), 1577–1640, Flemish painter.
- rubescent — becoming red; blushing.
- rubrician — an expert in or close adherent to liturgical rubrics.
- rumble on — If you say that something such as an argument rumbles on, you mean that it continues for a long time after it should have been settled.
- sabrewing — a large hummingbird of the genus Campylopterous, with long curved wings
- sainsbury — David John, Baron. born 1940, British businessman and politician, chief executive of the Sainsbury supermarket chain (1992–98); science minister (1998–2006)
- san bruno — a city in W California, S of San Francisco.
- sand crab — any of several crabs that live on sandy beaches, as the ghost crab or mole crab.
- sarabande — a slow, stately Spanish dance, especially of the 17th and 18th centuries, in triple meter, derived from a vigorous castanet dance.
- sarbacane — a type of blowpipe
- schonberg — Arnold [ahr-nuh ld;; German ahr-nuh lt] /ˈɑr nəld;; German ˈɑr nəlt/ (Show IPA), 1874–1951, Austrian composer in the U.S.
- screwbean — a small tree or shrub of the south-western United States that has edible pods
- scrubbing — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scrubdown — an act or instance of scrubbing, especially a thorough washing of a surface or object: The decks of the ship get a scrubdown every morning.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- sea robin — any of various gurnards, especially certain American species of the genus Prionotus, having large pectoral fins used to move across the ocean bottom.
- semiurban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- serbonian — of, relating to, or designating the large marshy tract of land in the northern part of ancient Egypt in which entire armies are said to have been swallowed up.
- sevenbark — wild hydrangea.
- shebeener — a person who runs or goes to a shebeen
- shelburne — William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, William Petty Fizmaurice Lansdowne.
- sherborne — a town in S England in Dorset: noted for its medieval abbey, ruined medieval castle, and Sherborne Castle, a mansion built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594. Pop: 9350 (2001)
- shipborne — carried on a ship.
- shirtband — a band of material sewn into a shirt for stiffening, finishing, or the like, as a neckband to which the collar is sewn or buttoned.
- shrubland — land covered by shrubs
- sideburns — If a man has sideburns, he has a strip of hair growing down the side of each cheek.
- signboard — a board bearing a sign.
- sigsberen — Archaic. a series of small hills.
- skunkbird — a North American songbird with a black-and-white striped back, also known as a bobolink
- slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
- snack bar — a lunchroom or restaurant where light meals are sold.
- snakebird — anhinga.
- snap brim — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- snowberry — a North American shrub, Symphoricarpos albus, of the honeysuckle family, cultivated for its ornamental white berries.
- snowboard — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- snowbrush — a brush for clearing snow (from a car, path, etc)
- soberness — not intoxicated or drunk.
- soilborne — carried in soil