9-letter words containing b, r, o, c
- rackboard — a board with holes into which organ pipes are fitted.
- radio cab — a taxi or cab equipped with a radio for communication
- razorback — a finback or rorqual.
- reblochon — a soft French cheese
- recombine — to bring into or join in a close union or whole; unite: She combined the ingredients to make the cake. They combined the two companies.
- revocable — that may be revoked.
- revocably — that may be revoked.
- rheobasic — of or relating to rheobase
- rice bowl — deep dish for rice
- roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- rocambole — a European plant, Allium scorodoprasum, of the amaryllis family, used like garlic.
- rock band — heavy pop music group
- rock bass — a game fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family, inhabiting freshwater streams of the eastern U.S.
- rock bolt — a steel or fiberglass bolt inserted and anchored in a hole drilled in rock to prevent caving of the roof of a tunnel or subterranean chamber.
- rock boot — a tight-fitting rock-climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and smooth rubber sole, designed to give good grip on small holds
- rock crab — any of several crabs that live along rocky beaches, especially those of the genus Cancer, as C. irroratus, of the eastern coast of North America, having the rear legs modified for running.
- rockbound — surrounded or covered by rocks
- roll back — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- rose comb — a low comb with rounded points and a rear-extending spike of some breeds of chickens, as Wyandotte.
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- scaraboid — of, relating to, or resembling a scarabaeid
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- schonberg — Arnold [ahr-nuh ld;; German ahr-nuh lt] /ˈɑr nəld;; German ˈɑr nəlt/ (Show IPA), 1874–1951, Austrian composer in the U.S.
- scombroid — resembling the mackerel.
- scorbutic — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with scurvy.
- scrapbook — an album in which pictures, newspaper clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- 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.
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- subocular — below or under the eye
- subsector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- tackboard — a large board, usually made of cork or soft wood, on which notices can be tacked.
- ter borch — Gerard [kh-ey-rahrt] /xˈeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1617–81, Dutch painter.
- thornback — a skate, Raja clavata, of European waters, having short spines on the back and tail.
- throwback — an act of throwing back.
- torchable — able to be torched or set alight
- tubicolar — living in a self-constructed tube
- vibrionic — of or relating to an infection by a bacterium of the genus Vibrio.
- vocabular — a vocabulary
- work back — to work overtime
- workbench — a sturdy table at which an artisan works.