9-letter words containing b, u, r, l, a
- manubrial — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manurable — Able, or suitable, to be manured or cultivated on.
- maturable — capable of being matured
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- muliebral — womanly nature or qualities.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- nonlabour — not relating to or concerned with work
- numerable — capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.
- orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- 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.
- 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
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- prolabour — favouring an organized labour movement
- pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
- pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- refutable — to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
- regulable — that can be regulated; controllable.
- reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- reputably — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- reusables — products that can be used more than once
- reuseable — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- rib vault — a vault supported by or decorated with diagonal ribs.
- roubiliac — Louis-François (lwifrɑ̃swa). ?1695–1762, French sculptor: lived chiefly in England: his sculptures include the statue of Handel in Vauxhall Gardens (1737)
- roundball — basketball
- rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- salisbury — Harrison, 1908–93, U.S. journalist and writer.
- salubrity — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- saturable — capable of being saturated.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- securable — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- shrubland — land covered by shrubs
- subaerial — located or occurring on the surface of the earth.
- subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subastral — pertaining to or proceeding from the stars; stellar; star-shaped.
- subcellar — a cellar below the main cellar.
- subdealer — a dealer who buys from another dealer
- subdermal — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subdorsal — situated close to the back in humans or upper surface in animals
- subhedral — (of mineral grains comprising igneous rocks) having a partial or incomplete crystal face or form.
- sublinear — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
- sublunary — situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.
- subneural — beneath or below a nerve
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.