9-letter words containing b, r, u, e
- mossbauer — Rudolf L [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1929–2011, German physicist: Nobel prize 1961.
- mousebird — coly.
- mud berth — a mooring place in which a vessel rests on the bottom at low tide.
- muliebral — womanly nature or qualities.
- muybridge — Eadweard [ed-werd] /ˈɛd wərd/ (Show IPA), (Edward James Muggeridge) 1830–1904, U.S. photographer, born in England: pioneered in photographic studies of animals and humans in motion.
- nebuliser — Alternative spelling of nebulizer.
- nebulizer — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
- neighbour — a person who lives near another.
- neuenburg — Neuchâtel
- nonrubber — not containing or made of rubber
- numbering — a numeral or group of numerals.
- numberous — Obsolete form of numerous.
- numerable — capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.
- nuremberg — a city in central Bavaria, in SE Germany: site of international trials (1945–46) of Nazis accused of war crimes.
- nutbutter — a food substance for spreading that is made from nuts
- objurgate — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- obscurely — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obscurest — Superlative form of obscure.
- obstruent — Medicine/Medical. (of a substance) producing an obstruction.
- obtrusive — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- obumbrate — to darken, overshadow, or cloud.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- otterburn — a village in central Northumberland, in NE England: battle of Chevy Chase 1388.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outbidder — a person who outbids
- outbraved — Simple past tense and past participle of outbrave.
- outbrazen — to be more brazen or impudent than
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outer bar — a body of the junior counsel who sit and plead outside the dividing bar in the court, ranking below the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel.
- outnumber — to exceed in number.
- over-busy — actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime: busy with her work.
- overbound — Simple past tense and past participle of overbind.
- overbrush — To brush excessively.
- overbuild — to erect too many buildings in (an area).
- overbuilt — Simple past tense and past participle of overbuild.
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.
- pea shrub — any of various small trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Caragana, of the legume family, native to central Asia, having showy, usually yellow flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- perturbed — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- perturber — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- pourboire — a gratuity; tip.
- pre-build — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- prebudget — produced, occurring or implemented prior to the release of the government's Budget
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- prenubile — of the period from birth to puberty
- prenumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- prepueblo — belonging to the period before the Pueblo Indians