9-letter words containing b, r, u, i
- hubristic — excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
- humbert i — (Umberto I) 1844–1900, king of Italy 1878–1900.
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
- ibn-rushd — Averroës
- ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
- inburning — burning within
- 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.
- indirubin — an isomer of indigotin which may be naturally extracted from the Indigo plant of China, and effective in the treatment of leukaemia
- indurable — Archaic form of endurable.
- inebrious — (archaic) intoxicated; drunk.
- innsbruck — an alpine region in W Austria and N Italy: a former Austrian crown land.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- 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.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- ip number — internet address
- iron blue — any of the class of blue pigments having a high tinting strength and ranging in shade and in coloring properties from reddish blue to jet blue: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and printing inks.
- ironbound — bound with iron.
- jitterbug — a strenuously acrobatic dance consisting of a few standardized steps augmented by twirls, splits, somersaults, etc., popular especially in the early 1940s and performed chiefly to boogie-woogie and swing.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- labourite — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- limber up — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
- limburger — a variety of soft white cheese of strong odor and flavor.
- litterbug — a person who litters public places with items of refuse: Litterbugs had thrown beer cans on the picnic grounds.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- 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.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- 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
- manubrial — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manubrium — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- marrubium — Any of the genus Marrubium of bitter aromatic plants; hoarhound.
- microtube — A microscopic tube, especially one used in the construction of specialized lasers.
- minirugby — a version of rugby played with nine players per team on a pitch half the usual size
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- misnumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- moundbird — megapode.
- mousebird — coly.
- muliebral — womanly nature or qualities.