9-letter words containing b, u, r
- full bore — moving or operating at the greatest speed or with maximum power.
- full-bore — moving or operating at the greatest speed or with maximum power.
- furbearer — any furry animal, especially one whose fur is of commercial value.
- furbelows — Plural form of furbelow.
- furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- furbisher — One who furbishes; especially, a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.
- furbishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of furbish.
- galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- germ tube — a tube produced by a germinating spore, such as the pollen tube produced by a pollen grain
- glyburide — a hypoglycemic substance, C 23 H 28 ClN 3 O 5 S, used orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- gobstruck — (slang, chiefly, UK) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded.
- grass bug — any of various hemipterous insects of the family Rhopalidae that feed chiefly on grasses and occasionally on certain trees, as the box elder.
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- grout box — a conical object of expanded metal, buried in poured concrete with an anchor bolt held in its inner and smaller end.
- grub beam — a curved, laminated wooden beam forming part of a rounded stern.
- grubbling — Present participle of grubble.
- grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- gruenberg — Louis, 1884–1964, U.S. pianist and composer, born in Russia.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- guanabara — a state in SE Brazil. 452 sq. mi. (1170 sq. km). Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
- guayabera — a sport shirt or lightweight jacket, often with several large front pockets, modeled upon a loose, smocklike shirt originally worn by men in Cuba.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- gunnbjorn — Mount, the highest peak in Greenland, in the SE part. 12,139 feet (3702 meters).
- gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
- hair bulb — the end of a hair follicle containing active hair-growing cells; situated under the skin
- hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
- hamburger — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.
- hammurabi — 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
- harboured — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harbourer — A person who harbours another.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- harquebus — any of several small-caliber long guns operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- heartburn — an uneasy burning sensation in the stomach, typically extending toward the esophagus, and sometimes associated with the eructation of an acid fluid.
- herbarium — a collection of dried plants systematically arranged.
- hereabout — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- heuneburg — an excavated prehistoric site in S Germany, near Ulm, consisting chiefly of a great early Iron Age fortification dating mostly to the second half of the first millennium b.c. and indicating that the inhabitants carried on an extensive trade with cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
- homebuyer — a person who buys or expects to buy a house.
- hubristic — excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
- humbert i — (Umberto I) 1844–1900, king of Italy 1878–1900.
- humbucker — (music) A pickup, on an electric guitar, that has a pair of coils of reverse polarity connected in series - to
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- hypercube — A geometric figure in four or more dimensions that is analogous to a cube in three dimensions.
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.