9-letter words containing b, u, r
- obscurity — the state or quality of being obscure.
- obstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obstruct.
- obstruent — Medicine/Medical. (of a substance) producing an obstruction.
- obtruding — Present participle of obtrude.
- obtrusion — the act of obtruding.
- obtrusive — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- obturator — to stop up; close.
- obumbrant — overhanging; projecting over another part.
- 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.
- orbicular — like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- orbituary — Orbital.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- otterburn — a village in central Northumberland, in NE England: battle of Chevy Chase 1388.
- ouroboros — A serpent, dragon or worm who eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outbidder — a person who outbids
- outboards — Plural form of outboard.
- outbraved — Simple past tense and past participle of outbrave.
- outbrazen — to be more brazen or impudent than
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outbursts — Plural form of outburst.
- 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.
- pakanbaru — a city on central Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- 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
- pillsbury — Charles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
- pittsburg — a city in W California.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- politburo — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- 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
- pressburg — German name of Bratislava.