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9-letter words containing b, u, r, o

  • blurt out — If someone blurts something out, they blurt it.
  • board out — If someone in your care is boarded out, they are sent to stay with someone else.
  • boarhound — a hound used to chase boar
  • bodeguero — a wine-seller or grocer
  • body-surf — to ride a wave by lying on it without a surfboard
  • bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
  • bordereau — a memorandum or invoice prepared for a company by an underwriter, containing a list of reinsured risks
  • boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
  • boulderer — a rock climber
  • boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
  • bound for — going or intending to go; on the way to; destined (usually followed by for): The train is bound for Denver.
  • bourasque — a tempest
  • bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
  • bourgogne — Burgundy2
  • bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life
  • bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
  • bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
  • break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
  • brewhouse — a brewery
  • brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
  • bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
  • bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
  • bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
  • brood bud — bulbil.
  • brown out — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
  • brush off — If someone brushes you off when you speak to them, they refuse to talk to you or be nice to you.
  • brush-off — a refusal to talk or listen to someone; abrupt or final dismissal or rebuff.
  • brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
  • brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
  • buckboard — an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
  • buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
  • bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
  • buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
  • bull rope — any of various ropes for holding objects to prevent them from rubbing against or striking other objects.
  • bulldozer — A bulldozer is a large vehicle with a broad metal blade at the front, which is used for knocking down buildings or moving large amounts of earth.
  • buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
  • bupropion — an antidepressant drug used to help people stop smoking
  • burdenous — burdensome
  • burgeoned — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
  • burladero — a safe area for the bull-fighter in a bull ring
  • burn down — If a building burns down or if someone burns it down, it is completely destroyed by fire.
  • burnt-out — Burnt-out vehicles or buildings have been so badly damaged by fire that they can no longer be used.
  • burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
  • burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
  • burrstone — buhrstone
  • bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
  • burst edo — Burst Extended Data Out DRAM
  • burst out — If someone bursts out laughing, crying, or making another noise, they suddenly start making that noise. You can also say that a noise bursts out.
  • bus error — (processor)   A fatal failure in the execution of a machine language instruction resulting from the processor detecting an anomalous condition on its bus. Such conditions include invalid address alignment (accessing a multi-byte number at an odd address), accessing a physical address that does not correspond to any device, or some other device-specific hardware error. A bus error triggers a processor-level exception which Unix translates into a "SIGBUS" signal which, if not caught, will terminate the current process.
  • bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
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