9-letter words containing b, u, r
- aylesbury — a town in SE central England, administrative centre of Buckinghamshire. Pop: 69 021 (2001)
- b bursary — the lower of two bursaries available for students entering university, polytechnic, etc
- b-picture — B-movie.
- babirusas — Plural form of babirusa.
- bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
- back four — the defensive players in many modern team formations: usually two fullbacks and two centre backs
- backcourt — In sports such tennis and badminton, the backcourt is the section of each side of the court that is furthest from the net. In basketball, the backcourt is the rear part of the court, where the defense plays. You can also use backcourt to refer to the members of a team who play mainly in this part of the court.
- backer-up — a supporter; backer; second.
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- bahuvrihi — a class of compound words consisting of two elements the first of which is a specific feature of the second
- balusters — Plural form of baluster.
- bandurria — a Spanish musical instrument of the guitar family with six pairs of double strings.
- bangaluru — a city in and the capital of Karnataka, in SW India.
- bankrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt.
- banqueter — A guest at a banquet.
- bar-b-que — barbecue
- baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
- barathrum — any deep abyss
- barbarous — If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
- barbecued — Cooked in a barbecue.
- barbecuer — someone who cooks using a barbecue
- barbecues — Plural form of barbecue.
- barbequed — Alternative spelling of barbecued.
- barbeques — Plural form of barbeque.
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- baroquely — in a baroque fashion
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- barquette — a boat-shaped pastry shell
- barracuda — A barracuda is a large tropical sea fish that eats other fish.
- barrelful — as much or as many as a barrel will hold
- barrowful — The amount that can fit in a barrow.
- bass drum — a large shallow drum of low and indefinite pitch
- batardeau — A cofferdam.
- baud barf — (jargon) /bawd barf/ The garbage one gets on the display screen when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (especially line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts the connection. Baud barf is not completely random, by the way; hackers with a lot of serial-line experience can usually tell whether the device at the other end is expecting a higher or lower speed than the terminal is set to. *Really* experienced ones can identify particular speeds.
- baud rate — a rate of data transmission measured in baud
- bead-ruby — a N temperate liliaceous plant with small white bell-shaped flowers and small red berries
- beakerful — the amount of liquid a beaker will hold
- bean curd — Bean curd is a soft white or brown food made from soya beans.
- beaumaris — a resort in N Wales, on the island of Anglesey: 13th-century castle. Pop: 1513 (2001)
- beclamour — to clamour excessively
- becquerel — Antoine Henri (ɑ̃twan ɑ̃ri). 1852–1908, French physicist, who discovered the photographic action of the rays emitted by uranium salts and so instigated the study of radioactivity: Nobel prize for physics 1903
- beer bust — an occasion on which a lot of beer is drunk
- beer pump — a pump for drawing beer directly from a keg or cask.
- beerhouse — an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.
- befortune — to happen, befall, come about
- beglamour — to endow with glamour
- begrudged — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
- begrudger — a dissatisfied person