9-letter words containing b, r, o, i
- piano bar — a cocktail lounge featuring live piano music.
- pillarbox — a technique for displaying a video recorded in portrait orientation on a wider screen by reducing its size but retaining the aspect ratio, with black bands filling the screen to the right and left of the picture (often used attributively): pillarbox format. Compare letterbox (def 2).
- politburo — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- potboiler — a mediocre work of literature or art produced merely for financial gain.
- pourboire — a gratuity; tip.
- prebiotic — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- premorbid — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- print job — computer: batch of files to be printed
- probation — the act of testing.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- probingly — with a probing approach
- probiotic — a usually dairy food or a dietary supplement containing live bacteria that replace or add to the beneficial bacteria normally present in the gastrointestinal tract.
- proboscis — the trunk of an elephant.
- procambia — plant part in stem and root
- proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- rabbit on — talk incessantly
- radio cab — a taxi or cab equipped with a radio for communication
- rainbowed — containing, resembling, or involving a rainbow
- raise hob — to cause mischief or disturbance
- razorbill — a common auk, Alca torda, of the North Atlantic, having a thick laterally compressed bill with white markings
- re-obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- rebellion — open, organized, and armed resistance to one's government or ruler.
- reboation — a repeated bellowing sound
- 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.
- rheobasic — of or relating to rheobase
- rhizobial — of or relating to rhizobium
- rhizobium — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Rhizobium, found as symbiotic nitrogen fixers in nodules on the roots of the bean, clover, etc.
- rib roast — a cut of beef taken from the small end of the ribs and containing a large rib eye and two or more ribs.
- ribozymal — of or relating to ribozymes
- rice bowl — deep dish for rice
- ring buoy — a ring-shaped life preserver.
- rio bravo — Mexican name of Rio Grande (def 1).
- riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
- road bike — a bike designed to be ridden on roads, as opposed to a mountain bike
- robert ii — 1316–90, king of Scotland (1371–90)
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- sailboard — a long board, usually of Plexiglas, used for windsurfing, having a mount for a sail, a daggerboard, and a small skeg.
- saprobial — relating to saprobity
- scaraboid — of, relating to, or resembling a scarabaeid
- scombroid — resembling the mackerel.
- scorbutic — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with scurvy.
- 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.
- 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.
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- shipborne — carried on a ship.
- shorebird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
- sibilator — someone who whistles
- sideboard — a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding articles of table service.
- signboard — a board bearing a sign.