4-letter words containing b, r
- kbar — a kilobar
- kerb — curb (defs 1, 15).
- krab — Short for carabiner.
- larb — A popular Laotian or Thai spicy diced-meat salad with ground, chopped, or minced meat and vegetables.
- mrbm — medium-range ballistic missile
- nlrb — National Labor Relations Board: a US government agency which mediates disputes between management and trade unions
- orbs — Encircle; enclose.
- orby — like or pertaining to an orb.
- prob — problem.
- psbr — public sector borrowing requirement: the excess of government expenditure over receipts (mainly from taxation) that has to be financed by borrowing from the banks or the public
- raab — Julius, 1891–1964, Austrian engineer and statesman: chancellor of Austria 1953–61.
- rabe — David (William) born 1940, U.S. playwright.
- rabi — the fourth month of the Muslim calendar.
- raob — Meteorology. a radiosonde or rawinsonde observation.
- rdba — Remote Database Access
- rebs — Mister (used as a title of respect).
- riba — (in Islam) interest or usury, as forbidden by the Koran
- ribs — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
- rlab — A MATLAB-like matrix-oriented programming language/toolbox. RLaB focusses on creating a good experimental environment (or laboratory) in which to do matrix mathematics. Currently RLaB has numeric scalars and matrices (real and complex), and string scalars, and matrices. RLaB also contains a list variable type, which is a heterogeneous associative array. Version 0.95 includes an interpreter, libraries and documentation. E-mail: Ian Searle <[email protected]>. ftp://evans.ee.adfa.oz.au. Requires GNUPLOT, lib[IF]77.a (from f2c). Ported to many platforms including Unix, OS/2, Amiga.
- rnib — Royal National Institute of Blind People
- robe — a long, loose or flowing gown or outer garment worn by men or women as ceremonial dress, an official vestment, or garb of office.
- rsgb — Radio Society of Great Britain (amateur radio operators)
- rspb — Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- rtbm — (Unix) Read The Bloody Manual.
- rtfb — (jargon) (By analogy with RTFM) Read The Fucking Binary. Used when neither documentation nor source for the problem at hand exists, and the only thing to do is use some debugger or monitor and directly analyse the assembler or even the machine code. "RTFB" is the least pejorative of the RTF? forms, the anger is directed at the absence of both source *and* adequate documentation rather than at the person asking a question.
- rube — Arthur Joseph, 1908–90, U.S. jurist, statesman, and diplomat: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–65; ambassador to the U.N. 1965–68.
- rubi — furigana
- ruby — a red variety of corundum, used as a gem.
- serb — a person born or living in Serbia; esp., a member of a Slavic people of Serbia and adjacent areas
- sorb — a Wend.
- uber — having the specified property to an extreme or excessive degree; very: an uber fancy restaurant.
- verb — any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.
- warb — a dirty or insignificant person
- wbra — Washington Barrel Racing Association
- yerb — Eye dialect of herb.
- zorb — (sports) A large, transparent, inflatable ball, inside which a person may be secured and then rolled downhill.