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9-letter words containing b, w, r

  • draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
  • drawbacks — Plural form of drawback.
  • drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
  • drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
  • elbowroom — Sufficient space to have freedom of movement.
  • embowered — Simple past tense and past participle of embower.
  • embrowned — Simple past tense and past participle of embrown.
  • flowerbed — A part of a garden or park where flowers are grown.
  • furbelows — Plural form of furbelow.
  • hashbrown — Alternative spelling of hash brown.
  • highbrows — Plural form of highbrow.
  • home-brew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
  • interwebs — Plural form of interweb.
  • jobernowl — a stupid person; blockhead
  • jobsworth — (chiefly, British) A minor worker who refuses to be flexible in the application of rules to help a client or customer.
  • low board — a diving board 1 meter (3.2 feet) above the water.
  • low brass — an alloy of about 80 percent copper and 20 percent zinc, with traces of lead and iron.
  • microbrew — beer brewed in a microbrewery.
  • new broom — Someone who has just started a new job and who is expected to make a lot of changes can be referred to as a new broom.
  • newsboard — bulletin board.
  • newsbreak — a newsworthy event or incident.
  • nut-brown — Nut-brown is used to describe things that are dark reddish brown in colour.
  • overblown — (of a flower) past the stage of full bloom; more than full-blown: an overblown rose.
  • owensboro — a city in NW Kentucky, on the Ohio River.
  • own brand — Own brands are products which have the trademark or label of the shop which sells them, especially a supermarket chain. They are normally cheaper than other popular brands.
  • powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
  • pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
  • rainbowed — containing, resembling, or involving a rainbow
  • raw umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
  • raw-boned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
  • renewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • renewably — in a renewable fashion, in such a way as to be renewable
  • rice bowl — deep dish for rice
  • saber saw — a portable electric jigsaw.
  • sabre saw — a portable electric saw with a narrow, oscillating blade
  • sabrewing — a large hummingbird of the genus Campylopterous, with long curved wings
  • sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
  • screwable — able to be screwed
  • screwball — Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
  • screwbean — a small tree or shrub of the south-western United States that has edible pods
  • scrubdown — an act or instance of scrubbing, especially a thorough washing of a surface or object: The decks of the ship get a scrubdown every morning.
  • shewbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
  • showbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
  • slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
  • snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
  • snowberry — a North American shrub, Symphoricarpos albus, of the honeysuckle family, cultivated for its ornamental white berries.
  • snowboard — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
  • snowbrush — a brush for clearing snow (from a car, path, etc)
  • spiderweb — to cover with a spider web or fine lines resembling a spider web.
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